Cecil, the chair of a democratic group. Heres a talk about the 2020 election. We also have with us wanda summers, with the associated press. In the White House Reporter with axials. Supporting progressives and democrats running for office. Election, wecular will focus primarily on the president ial race. Arm of have a nonprofit priorities that is focused on how we engage in getting more people involved, particularly underrepresented people in civic lifes life. That includes labor litigation about voting rights, communicating with people of color and young people. Engaged inm political life. In 20, we spent about 200 million. We imagine it will be in that range. Its early to have a final budget. We are focused primarily in four states. Wisconsin, michigan, florida, pennsylvania. We expect to expand into arizona and north carolina. Perhaps others as we get deeper into the election. Campaign16, the trump had no infrastructure to speak of and they still won. They havek to 2020, unlimited p
Announcer president ial candidates have been speaking at the iowa state fair for the last couple of days. Here is kristen gillibrands remarks. It is about 30 minutes. Senator gillibrand hello, everybody. I want to introduce the director of fun, henry gillibrand. This is the driver of the rv, jonathan gillibrand. Hi, everyone. Senator gillibrand they have made the trip amazing. We have loved it. Henry loves your state fair, so thank you. Henry won that, no joke, it was a little frisbee thing. I dont know. Anyway, it is such a pleasure to be here. I cant tell you how exciting it is. I got my start in politics in a community not unlike this. My grandmother, she was a woman who loves politics. She started working at age 18 as a secretary in our state legislature. 75 years ago, she looked around, all the legislators were men, all the support staff were women. So she wanted to have a voice. She did not know how, she knew her voice was important, but she figured out the voice of all the women
Pres. Trump we are doing very well with china. We are talking with china. We are not ready to make a deal. We will see what happens. We have been hurt by china for 25, 30 years. Nobody has done anything about it. We have no choice but to do what we are doing. It is working out very well. We called them on manipulation and they have brought their numbers back. They brought them back rapidly. They were able to do that because they manipulate. It is called monetary manipulation. Not good. What is happening with china now we have an open dialogue. , we will see if we keep meeting in september. If we do, that is fine. If we dont, that is fine. It is time somebody does what we are doing. I said the american taxpayer is not paying for it. We had a big day in the stock market yesterday, but the american taxpayer is not paying for it. What china is doing is depressing their currency by pouring tremendous amounts of money into their system. They are paying for it. The prices have not gone up. In
We lost Kristen Gillibrand yesterday. How many more do we have to lose . Emma nine more will not make the debate stage out of the 20 candidates. That is what i wrote about today. David we are looking forward to the debate. Can people remain in this race if they do not make it onto the debate stage . They can but it will be hard. If they do not make it this debate in the october debate, it will be very difficult. Being on the debate stage is more than just debating off other candidates. It is about showing you are a viable candidate, expressing your platform and getting our message out. If you are not on their, it is going to be difficult for donors and primary voters who matter a lot at this stage to see you and feel like they should continue to support you. Vonnie you said the magic david you said the magic word, donors. When you have john delaney who has money in his own pocket and says he will stick it out and i will, who is best positioned and who is weakest on the money . Emma the
Overall talks about the recent mass shooting and his home town of el paso. This is just over 35 minutes. Beto orourke good morning. Is in it you to full to hear the el paso band practicing behind us . I was just thinking about charlotte and i raised by melissa and cap and our sister grew up about four blocks from here. When i would walk to el paso high i would climb over this wall and make my way down the side of this mountain and see chris and judith and robert and. Ur friends it is a part of who i am. So proud of this community. Just looking out at everyone who is taking the time to be here this morning. I want to begin with my thanks and at the expression of my pride and this community at this moment. Oner this horrific tragedy august 3 where 22 lives were taken from us, dozens more injured and still grieving, many still and Medical Center, not yet through the was but being pulled through are the families and their friends and this community. The way that we have met this tragedy th