[applause] please welcome our county chair. Hello, iowa. Fellow democrats from across america. All 50 states of america, welcome to polk county. Celebration for our Democratic Party. Together, we will get to meet 17 candidates who are leading a conversation about the future of our party and our country. One of these 17 people will be our next president. They say bad weather brings good luck, and it rained like heck at last years steak fry, and then we won back the congress. I hope the weather we have today is going to win us back the white house next year. Before we get started, please join me in welcoming the elected officials and candidates who are here today. Usually, we read all their names at our events, but obviously this is a little bit eager, so we are not going to go through all hundred of them. Please join me in welcoming them here today. Welcoming join me in five of our newer steak fry leaders. Lindsay paulson and peter crane are our steak fry chairs. Our executive director
President ial candidates spoke at the polk county steak fry in des moines, iowa. We are going to show you some of the candidates remarks now, beginning with 800 work and beto orourke and kamala harris. Orourke is a fourthgeneration texan, born and raised in el paso, where he served on the El Paso City Council and in congress. He launched a historic 19 Month Campaign to represent all 28 million texans in the u. S. Senate, running the largest Grassroots Campaign the state had ever seen. [cheers and applause] are you guys here with somebody or what . Beto ultimately received more votes than any other democrat in Texas History as he excited thousands of firsttime voters to go to the polls. Polk county, please join me in welcoming congressman beto orourke. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] orourke hows everybody doing . Huge honor to be with you here today. So grateful for everyone who has come out regardless of what campaign you are with. We are all on the same team, focused on d
Nation, for of our the sake of our nations standing in the world and for the sake of the america that we pass on to our kids and grandkids, we are here to make sure that donald trump is a one term president. Its more than just beating him, though. It is rejecting the behavior he is normalizing. Misstatements, dividing us by race, gender, biogeography. Twitter tirades and temper tantrums. We now expect more out of our preschoolers that we do the president of the United States. This election is about rejecting crony capitalism. A trillion dollars of stock buy backs didnt go to you and me. Thanks to the tax cuts, the crew cleaning up will pay more in taxes last year than Companies Like amazon and chevron. Our effort is about making every american know that our economy and our democracy will work for them that no matter who you are, where you came from, how much money your family has, you have a fair shot at that american dream. But first, weve got to win. 2016 i was the only democrat in t
[laughter] [indistinct conversations] [laughter] [indistinct conversations] all right, thank you much. Thank you so much. Mayor buttigieg we are engaged. All right. Mayor buttigieg thank you for the support. [indistinct conversations] for my mom. Can we take a picture . [indistinct conversations] i am very happy about it. Hello, pete. I would love to see a fellow hoosier in the white house. Gary. And i am not talking about mike pence. [laughter] are you joining the bandwagon to impeach trump . Mike pence he is a lot scarier. [indistinct conversations] thank you, thank you. Sen. Warren i will come around. Hello, senator. Welcome back to iowa. Sen. Warren thank you. Thank you. Pleased to be here today. Elizabeth. Elizabeth great job. Kellie,to kellie. Thank you. You just made my year. Thank you so much for your work to repeal the hyde amendment. You are amazing. Can i take a picture with you . Thank you. Thank you so much. I love your book. Thank you. [indistinct conversations] [indistin
[indistinct conversations] all right, thank you much. Thank you so much. [indistinct conversations] mayor buttigieg we are engaged. All right. Mayor buttigieg thank you for the support. [indistinct conversations] for my mom. Can we take a picture . [indistinct conversations] i am very happy about it. Hello, pete. I would love to see a fellow hoosier in the white house. Gary. And i am not talking about mike pence. [laughter] are you joining the bandwagon to impeach trump . He is a lot scarier. [indistinct conversations] thank you, thank you. Sen. Warren i will come around. Hello, senator. Welcome back to iowa. You. Warren thank thank you. Pleased to be here today. Elizabeth. Elizabeth great job. Kallie to kallie, kallie. Thank you. [indistinct conversations] thank you so much for your work to repeal the hyde amendment. You are amazing. Thank you. Thank you so much. I love your book. Thank you. [indistinct conversations] sen. Warren oh, i thought i recognized you thank you. [indistinct c