[applause] good to see you. Mr. Delaney nice to see you. How are you feeling . Happy to be here. Mr. Delaney hello. How are you, nice to see you. Name . Re, whats your trinity, that is a very pretty name. How old are you . 11. Mr. Delaney you are in seventh grade, six, . No. Mr. Delaney good for you. Look at you. They put you to work, didnt they . Oh it is, now i get it. See you. Thanks for coming out. Thanks for being here trinity. How is school . Have you gone back yet or are you on christmas break . Go back monday . You excited to go back . No. She is funny. Did you have a good christmas . Did santa come . No. How was the tree . You did not put the ornaments on . So you two are together . I am the grandma . Mr. Delaney wonderful. Well, do you spend a lot of time down here at the deli . I heard the food is really good. What is your favorite pie . Chocolate cream pie. Who makes these pies . Do you ever help him . Are you made that one. I bet it is good. How is the pie . Trinity spy. I am sorry. Trinitys pie. Item sorry. Diana, nice to see you. It was pretty great watching you run up and down the street. We are going to get started here. [applause] for those of you that dont me, ie that dont know am running for senator. [indistinct] i would love your support in the 2020 election. You can find out more about me on facebook. There is someone else to tonight that you have all come to see that would really like your support. Congressman john delaney is the first in the democratic nomination for president. He was raised in a bluecollar family. Help prevent diabetes scholarship. He went on to law school where he met his white his wife april. He was one of the world greatest leaders by fortune magazine. Recognized by the obama administration. He believes that health care should be a right for every american. [applause] and that hyper policy and hyper partisan politics a bit of washington, d. C. For too long. He was the first democratic candidate for president to visit all of 99 tallies and started to send a message. Mr. Delaney thanks for coming out. I want to thank our host. Thank you for having us. Particular, trinity. Who made this pie right here. [applause] what kind of pie is this . A cherry pie. How is that cherry pie . Outstanding. Thats all you need to know. So the classic deli from brooklyn, where did you get i grew up in california. Was one right around the corner. Available. Aced mr. Delaney thanks for having us, how is business. On myreat to be with you january this is the first day of my january tour across iowa. We are going to do 40 stops during the month of january. This is not the first time i have been dialup. Trip to iowa. H in ove over 500 events iowa since i announced my campaign. Coffee places like this, shops, living rooms, family restaurants, talking to people about issues that matter. Let me introduce myself before i get started. , did everyoneat have a good new year . Did everyone have a good holiday, Merry Christmas . I have four daughters, we were all together for the holidays. My oldest daughter just got married. This was the first holiday with my soninlaw. Was a new experience for us but always really well. This is a different holiday for us. My oldest daughter is 27 and my youngest is 12. I represented in maryland in the congress of the United States for six years. I am from new jersey and grew up in a bluecollar family. My dad was an electrician. A union electrician. They took good care of us coming up. After school i went to columbia and georgetown law school. I met my wife. She is from idaho. Her dad was a potato farmer. The electricians son meets the potato farmers daughter, only in america. After law school i started to businesses. They were successful. I created thousands of jobs, to thousands of jobs. My business focused on lending money to other businesses. Small to midsize businesses that were being ignored by the big banks. My company went money to 5000 Small Businesses all over the country. Administration gave us an award for our lending to disadvantaged communities because we did it in an ethical and responsible way. So focused on am Economic Development in small towns across this country. I decided to dedicate the rest of my life to public service, which led me to run for congress. I was elected to maryland in 2012. I flipped a district that was held by a republican for 20 years. A very competitive district. It could go republican or democrat. Yearsfor three terms, six and announce my intentions to run for president. I elected not to run for reelection because i think this is a serious paying and you ought to give it all your focus. It should not be a free option, you should be all in. That is a little bit about me. One of the things i have learned during that time i have been campaigning in iowa, talking to howrs all over the state is so many towns not only in the state, but all over the country are struggling. Is of the great challenges climate change, a Health Care Crisis in the country. We have a lot of issues going on. Challenges that i think i am the only candidate that is really focused on is how small towns in rule america shrinking andare aging and there is not opportunities for young people. That is one of the defining features of our country. It is a huge problem. It is a problem for two reasons. Number one, its a problem for the towns. You have a sense as to what its like here in brooklyn. You are seeing whats happening to your town and other towns. , agingy are shrinking and not a lot of young people are staying or coming to these towns, but its a huge problem for democracy. Our country was premised on the notion that we would have broadbased economic prosperity. Meaning, big cities would do well and rural would do well and midsize towns would do well. You know who is doing really well . Big cities. Last year in our country 80 of invested inat was new businesses think about this business, at one point this deli was a start up. Startups like this raise capital , they get investors to start their business. 80 of the money going into Startup Companies went to 50 counties in this country. 99 counties in iowa. 3000 counties in this country, 50 of them, only 50, 1. 6 of the counties that 80 of all the money. Countiesfive years with over one Million People, you know, the big counties, those counties created 100,000 new businesses in the last five years. Less thanunties with 100,000 people, those counties lost 20,000 to 30,000 businesses. The population of our country has grown by 75 Million People since 1990. America it shrunk by 3 Million People. This is destabilizing our democracy. Because a big state like california has two u. S. Senators. Has two u. S. State senators. Everyd to make sure it region of this country is working economically. We need to have policies and an approach to create jobs, encourage entrepreneurship, encourage innovation and get people investing in smaller communities. That, my friends, is one of the central challenges of our country. That is a focus of my campaign. For the next 30 days i will go around and do dirty stops and 40 towns along around iowa talking just about this issue. Is, i am asking you to do if you think this issue matters, if you think the Democratic Party and our leadership needs an agenda to encourage investment in small communities, i am asking you to caucus for me, to send a message, not only to the Democratic Party, but the americathat rural matters. That small towns matter. That they need to be the focus of national politics. That its not just about the coast. That its not just about the big cities. We cannot continue these trends. We cannot wake up in 10 or 20 years and see huge parts of our country drained economically and have 10 huge cities with all the jobs. That will never lead to a stable democracy. That will never allow us to do the things we should have done. That will be terrible for these communities. Things ill you the want to do to deal with these issues. I want to create an incentive for companies to locate in smaller towns. I will try you one simple thing that will have a big impact. Right now, the u. S. Government is the largest buyer of goods and services in the world. The u. S. Government buys more of everything than anyone. And you fund that, the taxpayers, through the Government Contracting process. So right now, if you are trying to get a government contract and you are a veteran owned business, or you a dutch are a minority owned business or woman owned business you get a preference, meaning you get an advantage of getting a government contract. I support those. Those are good programs. New programeate a were 25 of the government contracts in this country go to firms that have half of their employees in communities that are struggling economically. Because wed only more Government Contractors in San Francisco or los angeles. We need them in the heartland of this country. Do. s one thing i will it will be transformative. It will create an incentive for Government Contractors to think about hiring new people to set up operations in communities that are struggling. It includes the industrial belt of this country, even inner cities. Second thing i want to do is part of a National Infrastructure program. I have a plan for thats fully paid for. Want to create and over allocation, or a disproportionate allocation to the same community struggling economically. I wanted take part of our tax code where we have something called the earned income tax credit, which is a tax credit that goes to workers who are on the low end of the pay scale and actually puts money in their pocket at the end of the year. Earnedto increase the income tax credit i would like to increase at all over the country, but i want to increase it in community struggling economically. Then i want to build on something i did it while i was in congress, which is create the whichties own creates an incentive for private investors to invest in struggling communities. Things, a National Infrastructure program with more dollars and struggling communities. So we have Rural Broadband everywhere. An incentive for Government Contractors to locate. Doing things to help workers in these places. Creating incentives for private capital. A hugell transform number of struggling communities. Its an unmatched agenda. Its relative to any of the Democratic Candidates running for president. I would argue none of them are even talking about this issue. Campaign,e part of my as well as my proposals to create a form of universal health care, which we can talk about, but a smart form of universal health care, only three candidates have proposed universal health care. Only three. Universal Health Care Means everyone gives health care as a basic right of citizenship. Candidates have spare prose that. Senator warren, senator sanders and myself. The rest of the candidates are talking about a public option, which is government run. There is nothing wrong with it, but it wont deal with the problems we have in our health care system. It will be positive, but its a very small step. A mike senator warren and senator sanders who proposed a universal health system, but then they also make private insurance illegal, what i propose is a universal health your system that allows people to have private insurance, which is what germany does, french france does, australia does. I think every american should have health care as a right. But as you may know, and a lot of hospitals around this country , most hospitals around this country, particularly in Rural America, hospitals get paid to to three times from commercial insurance than they do from a government. The problem with having the government pay all the bills is it will keep the lights on in the hospital. The government pays less than the cost of health care. Thats why we want a mixed model. But it underscores how i think about policy and leadership, which is, we should be solving problems by looking at facts, looking at data, bringing people together with common sense solutions. I wrote a book, i see some of you have it. Its called the right answer. A speech that john f. Kennedy came in gave in 1958. In the speech he said we should not speak the republican answer, we should not seek the democratic answer, we should seek the right answer. He went on to say we should not seek to fix blame for the problems of the past. But we should own our responsibility for our future together as americans. Speech a fewhe weeks after something called sputnik was launched. You remember or read about sputnik. It was the rocket that the soap yet union launched into space. If you look at the history books , you realize the American People were utterly panicked by this event. They did not know what it meant, they thought it meant they lost their future. John kennedyders said, no, our future is ours to build, but we have to build it together. I think we are in a similar moment. Space,t one rocket into but its all this change driven by technology and globalization. Change that has been transformative and positive. This change been extraordinarily positive. Billions of human beings have been lifted out of poverty. Literally 2 billion people have been lifted out of poverty the last several decades. We have innovations that no one couldve ever imagined. Some children are born with or 30 yearshat 20 ago they wouldnt have a chance, now they can live full lives. Disease is our terminal are now curable or make chronic. With one device we could connect to people all over the world. We have open up societies. We know this changes been challenging for so many of our citizens. 40 of our citizens can afford their basic necessities. A lot of that is in Rural America and the heartland of this country. We need to come together and rise up to this challenge. The only way we could do it is by working together. For every challenge and opportunity we have theres a right answer. Theres a right answer for all these things. This is a magnificent country. We should not let anyone tell you otherwise. We had the best hand of any nation in the world. Notonly problem is we are saying it right. We are not working together were getting things done. That is the kind of leadership i want to bring to the white house. President thate wakes up every day and asked for strength that i could every day could do something to bring the American People together. Who wont act like half the country is entirely wrong about everything they believe. When the first hundred days will put forth ideas towards health care, infrastructure, but every one of those ideas will be based on an existing bipartisan bill in the congress. Because they exist. Democrats and republicans have come together. Thank you. Distracted me for a second. Where democrats and republicans came together and found Common Ground. When itd be amazing if the president was working on getting these things done . It does not mean we agree with each other on everything, and wants to live in a country where we agree with each other on everything . Things we dont agree with each other on our debated. Based on the facts and what some measure of stability. Once in a while your leaders roll up their sleeves and actually find Common Ground and get something done. We allhat the country deserve to live. Isnt that the country that the next generation, people like trinity, amazing young people like her and all these other fabulous young people deserve frosted do what we can do, which is to leave the world better than we found it. Thats what my campaign for president is about. I want to thank you for coming and now i want to hear what you all have to say. [applause] mr. Delaney whos got a question . About ruralidea communities. A referee blowing the whistle. We have a lot of people and makeing the market it hard for cattle ranchers. Free enterprise, you dont have a situation like that. We not only have that, now they have change the prices. We need a government that can actually help us with our market. Soybeans, we started to not be able to supply them. More localhave investments, well have a fair planes deal. We are going under if this situation is amplified more than it is already. Mr. Delaney let me tell you the two things i will do that will make a difference. The stock about trade first. I cant believe i am about to say what im about to say. Im the only democratic president running for candid democratic candidate running for president who supports the Transpacific Partnership. When i why im so amazed say this. This was president obamas number one domestic economic priority a second term. I would very closely with the administration and the congress. Was to create a , andtion trading block that group of nations, which does not include china, would supply 40 of the global economy, and the United States wouldve been the head of that group effectively. It willest harris lower tariffs and open up markets. A person that was an incredibly important port point person was tom. He was a great secretary of agriculture. The big winner in the Transpacific Partnership was agriculture. Farmers dont want handouts, they want markets. They want more opportunity to sell their products. If im elected president of the United States, i will get us back to the Transpacific Partnership. Every singleed it, price and every crop in this country will go up. The market will know we will be in a straight agreement. This was obamas number one priority. Number one i was lead point person in the house. Foras right, it was good farmers at the economy, it was good for our Competitive Position against china, and it put us in a position to build on our relationship with allies. The best way to have allies around the world is to have an economic relationship. Get us back into tpp, which will open up markets. The second part is about monopoly power. There are two antitrust laws in this country. On