Entire country as we winnow the field. I cannot be more excited for todays panel of experts who will die further into this. Our program will include one hour discussing the history of the Iowa Caucuses with a short 30 minute break where you can enjoy refreshments and visited the first in the nation exhibit on the first floor. We will then come back for an hour long discussion about the horserace of the current field of candidates. Now, it is my pleasure to introduce todays moderator. This iowa native is one of the best in the business. Having spent 34 years as a political reporter for the Des Moines Register, please join me yepsen. Ming david david thank you, susan. Museum andhank the staff for hosting this conversation. For better or worse, the iowa precinct caucuses have played a role in the election of american president s. And also, they have all spent time helping hardworking reporters seeking to make sense of it all. Starting from your left, they ldford, drake hoffman, theonna di
Cspan is light and i what where scholars are looking ahead to the democratic caucuses, which take place on february 3. Museumnt to thank the for this work and trying to develop a greater understanding of what our significant events in our states political history. I would like to thank cspan for being here today, making this accessible all over the world. Myself andan junkie i know many of you are. We appreciated them taking the time to make this a nationwide event where people from all over the country can participate and watch this discussion. Right, give them a hand. [applause] question, i will start with you. I would like to get a comment from each person on this stage. Significance of the caucuses in the nations political history and iowas political history . Have they been a good thing or bad thing for democracy . Increasingly, i thought, caucuses are great for us, they give us things to do. We meet people across the country, we need candidates, help moderate appearances. Whether
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And that worked and Business Confidence returned so employment went up and the Unemployment Rate went down and i cut spending because i hate deficit spending and that also helped get confidence from the employers and as we say the government level the best social program anybody ever invented is a job and so thats very rewarding bill you know youre up against it dont you well i know that im up against a president whos very popular among the 50 state republican parties very very popular but the reason why is that those are the trump organizations and each of the 50 states after the election he put in his people. So its not surprising that he should have 99 to one popularity among the trump organizations in the various states i think the challenge for me is to expand the electorate thats going to vote in the republican primaries so ill be concentrating on the 20 states that permit crossover voting where democrats and unaffiliated independent voters can automatically vote in the republica
Automatically vote in the republican primary and ill be trying to persuade unaffiliated and independents in all 50 states to come vote in the republican primary because if theyre not satisfied with the performance of President Trump they really get to vote against him twice if they want to and you vote for me or any of the other people who may join me in the republican primary is a vote taken right away from mr trump so its its really in a way a vote against trump and then they can vote for whoever they want in the final you reasons is said that donald trump is a rhino a republican in name only lead mean in name only hes on the well i just i want to give him a tickle larry because people call me a rhino busy republican in name only because im prochoice on the question of abortion well that didnt used to be a litmus taste test issue 2 thirds of the Republican Party in New Hampshire to this day is prochoice so im not going to confess error and say im knocked out on that one when i say mr