Thank you, clear lake. Thank you, iowa. Wow. What a reception. You know how to make somebody fel welcome. Im going to have to keep coming back up here. Im so glad to be with you. If you havent been following yet, im pete buttigiege, most stick with may oor pete. I think our country is running out of time but it is not too late. We are living in amoment more serious than what trump represents. How does he ever get within cheating distance of the oval office . Taht doesnt happen in ordinary times. It happens if were already in crisis, and weve seen it, living with School Shootings and Climate Change. Where gdp can go up, stock market goes up, life expetency goes down. Something is deeply troubled. It means we are not going to be able to fix it by recycling the same arguments. We have to do something completely different. [applause] im excited to be in this part of iowa because this is a great place to remind each other that theres no such thing as a permanently red state or county or pre
Senator Kamala Harris and then ohio congressman tim ryan from the youngstown area. Time, senator Amy Klobuchar of minnesota. Senator kirsten gillibrand. Governor John Hickenlooper at 4 00 eastern time. Then senator Elizabeth Warren, and that would be followed by senator court worker senator cory booker of new jersey. Bit of political news from south carolina, senator tim scott says he will run for reelection in 2022, but that will be his last political race. He took over when jim demint resigned the position. He was appointed as a member of the house to the senate seat by thengovernor nikki haley. He will step down when his term is completed. He is up again in 2022. This is an aerial view of the iowa state fair. Coming up from this morning, julian castro, housing secretary in the Obama Administration, former mayor of san antonio, among the speakers this morning at the Des Moines Register political soapbox. [applause] mr. Castro good morning. alls great to be with y in des moines at the
This is 40 minutes. It is great to be with you at the iowa state fair. Thank you to rachel and everybody at the Des Moines Register and those that helped organize this. Iowa is proud of the state fair. You have a lot of reason to be. Im here with my family. My wife, erica and our daughter and sun son. Treat for mel because i dont often get to travel with my family. I think they are looking forward to the bumper cars and maybe the sky rides and that bacon that yall sell on a stick. [laughter] mr. Castro i want to talk to you this morning about what were going to become as a nation. I think of we went if we went around this fair and listen to the stories of your family, we would hear a lot of stories that reflect the best of our nation, of the American Dream coming true. That is true in my case, too. I grew up with my brother joaquin and my grandmother and mom on the west side of san antonio. My grandmother had come to san antonio when she was seven years old with her younger sister beca
[cheers] what you think about the slate of candidates . [applause] we have a good group coming ahead. Are you ready to hear them . [applause] ok, were going to do a little bit of tightening if you can. If you have an empty seat next to you, filled up. If you folks are looking for a chair in the aisle, come and sit in the seat right now. Just come in and still fill the seat. Tighten up your seats. Give a good old north iowa hug and get close and cuddly. That is what i was all about. [laughter] here we go folks. Now we going to give a coveted beacon award. The beacon award would not be possible if it were not for gary sinton and dean gand putting this award together 12 years ago. [applause] every year we have given the beacon award to amazing people from a federal level, statelevel, and national level. Barack obama got a got it Hillary Clinton got it, ted kennedy got it. Then sharon seckman got it last year. A big handout for sharon seckman. Our very own Amanda Raymond got it. We have gi
And that is the american spirit i met so many islands approached me about gun safety and doing something about background checks and assault weapons ban and magazines. It has been unbelievable. And i told them all the story of when i sat across him the president after parkland, advocated for gun safety. Nine times he said he wanted universal background text. The next day he goes and meets with the nra, and he folds. As your president i will not fold. [cheering] an economic agenda for this company should unite rural and urban. That is why i have been out there talking about yes, the farm bill. Also childcare. We know the issues. Also housing and education. And hospitals and making sure that we have enough mental only 64eds when theyre in the state of bio. That is not acceptable. And i will end this practice of privatizing medicaid. This is wrong in the state of bio. State of iowa. It all starts here with this change. Because you iowa gave us the granger movements that took on those big