Im so proud to be on the stage tonight to support Kamala Harris and happy to be caucusing for her at the iowa caucuses. I believe we all have a responsibility to play someone white house represents me, my daughter and my community. It is time that we get back respect equity and intelligence. [applause] not based on their race or orientation. As kamala said on the debate stage two days ago justices in the balance. Theres so much stake in this election that we must elect someone who will do just that. Kamala is my choice and i want to share my voice for her now and the caucuses and i hope you will too. After donald trump is elected by some my community my friends and my family feel like they no longer have a voice. This was in part by the rhetoric that was happening as well as policies that were put into place to protect us in the first place. I realize we needed a leader with strong and close he is in the face of injustice and she will speak for all the people. Kamala and bodies what is right. She is the candidate who will fight for me and who will fight for you and our community. Kamala has shown us she will go afraid to stand up for the people, all the people. If she can win she is smart, she is committed and she is writing and willing to put in the hard work necessary to reunite us as a nation and put us back on the top of the world leaderboard. My entire family will be caucusing for, lest this election i hope you will join us in that. Right now please give a great midwestern welcome to a fearless fighter the senator from california and their future president of the United States, Kamala Harris. [applause] [cheers and applause] [applause] its good to be back in muscatine. Hi everyone. How are you guys doing . I feel like i should be telling jokes. Thank you shannon. That means so much to me and youve been so helpful and youve worked so hard and your phone her whole family. Can we please hear it for shannon. [applause] theres so much in this moment thats truly about a fight for democracy and all of you by being here this evening before the thanksgiving week when there are so many other things you could be doing it should remind us that the strength of our democracy has always been the people. It has always been the people and please remember that power is truly in the people. When you do the kinds of things that we are doing to be out there and to be a it is a barometer of their democracy is still healthy and the life. Lets remember that and i thank everyone for being here and taking part. Im here to share a few of my thoughts and semi plans and im going to take pass along the mic because i want to hear from you. We are in a fight or they believe we are in a fight for our system of justice. I believe we are in a fight for our rule of law. And there is no question about that. We have had a week of hearings and i did a bunch of press interviews and i explained one of the takeaways that we should all leave with at the end of the week is a couple of things. One that there are really great people who are working on behalf of the American People, career people in the department and the american intelligence community. Im the only person on the debate stage who serves on the Senate Intelligence committee. There are great people who have dedicated their lives to the service of our nation and they were out this week are the second take away is there is clearly a criminal enterprise and what became exposed and i talked about this is that we need to haul into the congress to hear from all the president s men. [applause] clearly not only about the president i have questions about the Vice President and the chief of staff and then there is rudy. I think rudy needs to remind us hes a lawyer but he has the right to remain silent. [laughter] [applause] but theres a fight in front of us a fight for everything we hold dear and all of these things as a nation and make us very strong. Thats why we are all here. The question then becomes okay how are we going to win . Its also the nature of who we are as people that we know how to fight and we know how to win and we like to win. Its a whim i believe. We must be focused on the future what is at stake right now is so much bigger than donald trump. So we need to be focused on the future and knowing that ringing back yesterday is not going to solve this problem tomorrow. Two win we are going to have to fight against the powerful forces that have gained some traction in their attempt to sow division among us. We are going to have to fight against those people reminding people that there is beauty and diversity of who we are as a nation. The vast majority of us have so much more in common than our differences. And two win we are going to need someone on that debate stage who can go toetotoe against donald trump and muscatine i think you are looking at her. [applause] i take it on. I have taken on jeff sessions. Ive taken on bill barr and ive taken on cat on line i can take on donald trump and im looking forward to it. [applause] so we need to when and we need to do this in the name of the people. So this is a fight for justice in the name of people. As many of you might know i started my career and i started my life in the civil rights movement. My sister and i joke its fulltime marching and shouting. When i came home from law school my mom who raised me and my sister she said, lost youre in a fight for justice. I decided i was going to be a prosecutor because i wanted to go inside of the system that has often done the work of injustice and be able to be on the inside and i also want to be in a place where it can be a voice for the vulnerable. So i started my career the first day walking into a courtroom speaking five words. Kamala harris, and that phrase for the people really into ways represents the spirit of our system of justice. One, in our system of justice a harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us. And in that way therefore no one should be made to fight alone. For the people. It means all the people regardless of race, regardless of gender, regardless of the party, regardless of where they live geographically regardless of the language their grandmother speaks. So i started my career in a courtroom specializing in crimes against women knowing they deserve to boyce gave them strength and dignity without judgment. For the people i was elected as the first woman and made it an initiative on thing the war on drugs led to americas mass incarceration. I started programs that became National Models around bringing jobs to people addicted to drugs i was elected the attorney general of california where he led the secondlargest department of justice and United States second only to the United States department of justice and their take on those who engage in predatory lending behaviors and activities that cause foreclosures around our country for working families who lost their homes and in that battle brought 20 million back to the state that i representative. And i have served in the United StatesSenate Taking on again bill barr in Brett Kavanaugh and jeff sessions. They need to be held to account the need to tell the truth to the American People in the interest of the American People. It is for the people that im prepared to defeat donald trump. [applause] as shannon said justices on the ballot in 2020. Justice is on the ballot when there is a father at midnight tonight in places around our country who is sitting at the Kitchen Table after everyone has gone to sleep and he is trying to figure out how even though he is working two jobs he can barely get through the end of the month. He knows he is paying higher taxes than the 400 richest families in america. Acting economic justices on the ballot. Im running for president to say we are going to put in place the largest middle class tax cuts we have had in generations for families that make less than 100,000 a year. They will get a tax benefit that they can take home. People say, how are you going to pay for that . A day when we are going to repeal the tax bill for the top 1 and the biggest corporations in america. [applause] when in america on any given day there is a mom whose child has a fever that is out of control and she goes to the hospital and shes looking at the sliding glass door to the emergency room but doesnt want to walk in because even though shes got insurance she knows if she walks into the sliding glass doors she will be out of pocket with a 4000dollar deductible. Health care justice is on the ballot. Im running for president to say we need medicare for all, not some but all. I will tell you my plan is a bit different than my friends on the debate stage. Im going to bring down cost and im going to get rid of copays and deductables but im not going to raise the middle class tax and im not going to take away your choice. Ive heard from too many people that say, lie want to know that everyone is going to be covered. I like what you are doing including a hearing and hearing aids and vision and dental. Yes, right . And its just so expensive. Thousands of dollars outofpocket. The point is the difference between my plan in a couple of folks on the stages are not trying to get rid of the private insurance companies. They need to be brought to bear on and in copays and the bowls and they need to compete in our system of im not going to take away your choice. Health care justice is on the ballot. When in america we are looking at the fact that teachers here in iowa around our country are working two and three jobs to try and get through the month when 94 of the teachers in our Public Schools its coming out of their own pocket to help pay for school supplies. When teachers on average make 11 less than similarly educated nationals. Its not right. [applause] im running for president to put in place will be the first in her nations history federal investment in closing the teacher pay gap with a nationally is 30,500 a year. That is a mortgage payment or grocery bill or putting a significant dent in student loan debt. Teachers dont need a gun, they need a raise. [applause] and i will tell you with your help we are going to win and one of the most joyful of my first at its presentday states will be to say thank you. [applause] justices on the ballot. When our babies and i was raised in the community to believe that the children of the community are the children of the community. When our babies elementary, middle and High School Students have been going to school to endure a drill during which they are taught how to hide in the closet in the event that there is a mass shooter running in the hallways of their school. Justice for our children is on the ballot. Im running for president to say its about time that we have courage and leadership to take on the gun lobby and im going to give the United States congress 100 days to put legislation on my desk and that they did not between me and some of my friends on the debate stage. I will take executive action and put in a conference of background check requirement and to our country. [applause] when in our country there have been policies that have resulted in babies being put in cages and parents separated from their children in the name of order security when in fact what it is a human rights abuse being committed by the United States government. Justice for immigrants is on the ballot. [applause] and lets remember emigrants have helped make america great. Somebody needs to remind donald trump that some of his closest relatives are emigrants to. [applause] you shouldnt let them in. We should let donald trump in justice is on the ballot in so many ways and i can go through the list. The need to reform our criminal justice system, what we must do in terms of focusing on the various social justice issues that are about fundamental reproductive justice. States are under country are putting in place laws that will criminalize assisting a woman with exercising that choice as she rightly has to make over her own body. Justice is on the ballot. [applause] these are all fundamental issues that i believe are very much front and center in this election in 2020. The bottom line and this is how i feel very deeply is that when we overcome these various injustices i do believe its at that moment that we will have the potential to unlock american pride, that we will have the ability to unlock the potential of the American People. That is the america i see when im running and literally running so much. That is what im running to. That is what i truly can see and so that is our goal and thats where we are. I will just make a final point which is ive been in the campaign now for over 10 months and in the course of the campaign and the election i call it the elephant in the room but its really the donkey in the room and its a conversation about electability. Lets have that conversation for a moment. The conversation goes Something Like this. Well, i dont know if america is ready. We are ready. For a woman of color to be president of the United States. Some people say well im ready but i dont know if the neighbors are ready. People say well maybe its not your turn. Maybe its not your time. I will tell you guys this is a conversation ive heard in every campaign. Heres the operative word. And i share this with you not to say anything about me but to say everything about who the American People are. We have the ability and particularly you have always been a leader and having the ability to see what is possible. To have the ability to believe and have faith in what can be unburdened by what has been. In fact im going to tell you really quick story about iowa. You have many more stories than i do but im going to share what little story efdot twitches before running for president this is not the first time i spent time in the state. I spent time in iowa particularly the white thing christmas and new years in 2007 i was campaigning for a certain senator from the state of illinois. And of course theres no job too small or too big, whatever was needed. It was the last night and i went to the headquarters to see if anything else needs be done. I said, theres a Residential Home in des moines. Nobody has been there yet. Its the corinthian gardens africanamerican Residential Home. Can you go and i said of course. So i wanted i started knocking on doors and some lady invariably would answer the door and say oh baby come on and. Are you hungry . You look a little skinny. [laughter] and then i not on a door and a lady answered the door. When she answered the door she had this perfectly coiffed wig and perfect makeup. This elegant woman and i dont think she was expecting anybody. I was all excited and i said hi im Kamala Harris and im here for the caucuses. So you come out and join . And she looked at me with a straight face when she spoke these words. They arent going to let him win. And then i thought, this lady and all of her 85 plus years and what she has experienced and witnessed in terms of indignity and injustice. At this stage of her life she wasnt about to visit another disappointment. To myself i said okay im not leaving here. I stayed and i talked with her and she talked with me and open the door a little bit more. She never took the chain off the door. She never took that chain off. And guess who showed up at the caucus that night . And guess who one . That awful night in november, it was awful. And it lingered. And there were who many who work who hard. It was in such a personal way. I would love our country and belief, that we can continue elect our first woman president did there are who many other reasons that believe in the importance and that. And then experience the grief that many experienced that night still lingers. I am clear about the fact that there are people who worked very hard on that campaign. Who are staying today, maybe america has brought ready yet. I know that. I am really clear about what we are asking. I am really clear about that. But heres the thing, theres nothing but a nation has achieved, but is been about progress, be it social justice, civil rights, our ongoing fight for your equality. There is nothing we have ever achieved that is been about progress. That came that went out a fight. Nothing. We know how to fight. We like the good fight. We were born out of a fight. And it is the nature of who we are that we never sit back and wait for your someone to give us permission to tell us what is possible. We make it happen. Because we know is possible. Who when others cant see it, and in particular, iowa. You see it. And you make it happen. That is part of why i am running. Because it is that exact thing, that also talks about the america we can see. The america we can see it and believe it. Where everyone has healthcare, the america we believe in. When we treat our children with respect and the nurturing they deserve who they can go to school everyday and feel safe. The america we believe in, where we respect immigrants and understanding. That we are a nation of immigrants. By the way, most are native american, my ancestors were kidnapped or brought over on ship, your people are immigrants. [applause] the america we believe in, this is what is our fight right now. It is in america we believe in. We know that nobody should have to work more than one job to have a roof over their head and put on the table. And ultimately, for your me, it is the america i believe in which also includes that when we approach a perfect stranger, in the face, we see a neither. That is the america we are fighting for your. And i believe we will win. Thank you guys. [applause] lets give her one more round of applause whistling and screaming and [applause] which of the microphone. My name is condemns, im from eastern texas. I drove up here to work for you. Im working at the davenport office. And when i am doing my testament a while for you, i tell them really one word. An insolent did the pennant diabetic. I am proud of you for the work that youve done and i really want you to be elected seeking in their fight for your us. And then thing senator, im tired of being the only person on facebook that doesnt have a filter with you. [laughter] [applause] a pitcher is worth a thousand words. Thank you for your not only traveling and working on the campaign because it is a strength of our campaign is that kind of support but also insulin. Everybody might know this one for your diabetes patients cannot afford their insulin. Buying insulin in america can cost over three and a dollar news. I am glad you asked. [laughter] it cost about 30. Who why should we sit back and ask, how is it that American Drug companies, are charging americans more for the same drugs than they charge for your patients in canada and other places around the globe. How can the be. While i would tell you. Its because we have a bunch of people in washington dc who are in the pocket. In standby and watch our own people be charged more for the same drugs. By american companies. Who when i see healthcare justices on the ballot, it is the medicare for your all but also what i intend to do specifically about pharmaceutical companies and drug prices. Who im going to tell you, another thing between me and a few people in this stage, my career is actually working on things and getting things done. There are very few topics, in which i have not actually worked. And i dont mean to the lovely speech. Or submitted a bill may or may not have gotten past. Actually worked on it. On this, i have taken the Drug Companies around the attorney general california. And i won. I know how powerful they are. I know what they are doing and i know the business model. Who my plan, as a candidate for your president are in these drug. We are going to set drug prices in a fair market. Who essentially what we going to do is visit the website if you will. But essentially what were going to do is centralize the prices who American Consumers are charged a price for the drug is the average price is being charge of the globe. [applause] entered a huge difference insolent being an example. In the end thing is this, if people dont want to cooperate with that, im also going to do the next thing which is this. A lot of drugs prescription medication, was born out of federal funding for the research and development of the drug. Your taxpayer dollars who for your any drugs when they failed to stick by our rules, and at the drug came about because of federal funding for your what its called r d, research and development, i will smack the patent. Who that we will take over. As if we can do that. Yes [applause] yes we can do that. The question is do you have the will to do it. I had the will to do it. Who insulin, thank you for your talking about that is an issue. Its the bigger issue also in what is happening in terms of how seniors here and i iowa hurting buses to canada to get the prescription medication. Seniors around the country were splitting pills, who that the dr. Has prescribed that you take the whole pill. And people taking half the bill or quarter of the pill to extend the prescription was his resulting in obvious outcomes. Because its not what you are to take to be healthy. Who we are staying that people are going into health crises. Because most things around healthcare, you dont just, i have a different take. People are dying because they are splitting the pills. Seniors are making decisions about filling the refrigerator filling their prescription. This is in the main and immoral. Who thank you cried [applause] im from washington dc. Is anybody here for your muscatine. [laughter] we travel all the way from dc. We never have had a vote in congress of what we are coming to you likely done with who many other as we travel the country and receive you in cedar rapids. And in des moines. Wai way wanted to know is we support us. We are at 51 bus in the senate. [inaudible conversation] let me just tell you i am just really clear about this. It is unfair, and state taxation that went out representation. Another slogan. I know what you are talking about. Im there. The back maggot pitcher before you leave. Okay the lady in red. My name is sara i am a teacher also worksheet working on the job. I am just tired. Im tired of waking up waking up many times in the middle of the night scare him in school im tired of my students coming to school being afraid. Being afraid in their own neighborhoods because they hear gunshots and i. If you likely cant go out and play. I know you are not afraid of childhood. But i want to know what you are going to see to Mitch Mcconnell who that things actually start to change and theres no more coal minds. Is and hooks. See mike when everybody heard is whats happening around the nation. Our kids are traumatized. Just doing an assessment of who is in the room for the majority of us in this room are over the edge of 20. But if you talk to anybody who is on the edge of 20 regardless of where they live, high school or middle or illness or school. They will tell you they have an active shooter drill. On a consistent basis. Literally, i saw broken down for your everybody. Literally they are taught about what they should do in terms of hiding in a closet, crouching in a corner, starting with one student, high school student. I said to me what its like. She said well, we did it in every class. But i can hope that when the shooter comes, im not in this one classroom because its near the stairwell. As i often say when im in the classroom, i hope it doesnt happen soon. Would prefer to be in the southern classroom my humanities classroom because there is a big closet in her classroom. And she would see, i particularly like with the southern teacher of mine is. Shes a bungee cord. Who show kind of like a file cabinet with a bungee cord against the door who nobody can break in. When i talk about this publicly, cannot tell you how many, usually its about the child between eight and ten. Comes up to me and post my jacket and its a secret between us. I had to have one of those drills is it too. I met elementary School Students and teachers, including teachers at every loophole, and during teacher orientation before classes started, a big part of their orientation was there being taught on how to tackle a gunman. Elementary School Teachers who told me, part of what we have been trained in and when this one teacher said that i should keep red lollipops on me. She said because of the youngest kids you need to keep them part of why its. This is what is happening in america. Let me tell you something. I see to Mitch Mcconnell, all of this people in congress will frankly, literally no courage. This b may be, this elementary and Middle School High School child children could care less who the parents voted for the last election. And those bullets, certainly careless. And again, some of my friends who were opponents in the race, said theyre going to take executive action. But what happens when theres a republican comes after her. You know what, i will do with that in eight years. [laughter] we need action. [applause] i just want to see to you, thank you for your continuing in this profession. Part of my whole plan on education, my first ride teacher attended my law school graduation. I love teachers. The blessing of an incredible mother and family and incredible teachers. They put me on the stage. Who my focus is on a number of issues including this but also i will make sure that we have a nurse and a social worker never school. [applause] but also doing all of the work ready to do to what our teachers and significance of our Public Education system. Who thank you for your sticking with it. In spite of all thats all of the obstacles that have been ua. Thank you. [applause] one last question. Personal thank you. My question is about housing. We share with us your platform and policies before you do,. [inaudible conversation] thank you. I am from kansas city, missouri. I never thought my state would become now unaffordable. Its costing a lot of her name to live. What id like to hear your plan that. Uric, kansas city, and iowa has the same issues. Oliver. It is something where the Affordable Housing topic, is the fair one. I have a short list with the things we are not talking enough about that are really big issues for your families and the communities. One of them is Affordable Housing. The other one is Mental Health. [applause] it is driving me bananas sorry said that way, but all of these discussions would be having about healthcare, i wish we rightly must have the number one issue in most people news minds picking them up at night you have we talk about it. The body starts at the neck down. Instead of understanding the health care that we need from the neck up is the only important one. Its one of the biggest ones and topics of america. People are quietly and silently suffering from depression. And from Substance Abuse and suicidal thoughts. We are putting know what resources there. It is absolutely, affecting everyone from farmers to veterans. Two children, you talk about in communities where, growing up in poverty is, inducing. And what we are not doing to address Mental Health as an extension of our healthcare system. As big part of my client ten. I actually just rolled out a policy today. It is about hundred billion dollars putting into Affordable Housing. But also have things that are connected with the Affordable Housing, and 99 percent of the counties in america, in minimumwage worker working fulltime, and not afford market rate. Who one of the issues about Affordable Housing, is the fact that, and its an overall issue, their wages have not kept up with the cost of leaving. Who this becomes highlighted on the variety of issues that are fundamental. To the dignity much less the security of anyone, like a roof over your head. We went we talk about affordable childcare. Again wages have not kept up for the cost of leaving. Childcare is the her name times more expensive than college tuition. Who Affordable Housing, hundred billion dollars to put into basically what we need to do to build Affordable Housing. Who is about families being able to have the wages to be able to afford what is there. But also have more supply. My plan is to Greater Partnership with our building unions. Who the pipefitters and the carpenters around buildings within the communities that meet the Affordable Housing, the skills within that community can actually acquire the skills to take the jobs. They are who important. To build housing in their own communities. In the Trump Administration talks about the stuff, but as with every policy that had, it is selfserving and who a lot of how they talk about Affordable Housing, or policies that if you at the details of it are about saving her name in the back pocket of the developers. As opposed to putting her name in to the community. Thats how i say about it. Thank you. [applause] stigma thank you all in for your good, listener out with a truly muscatine thank you for your coming and speaking. [applause] claiming [applause] thank you. 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