This is such an iconic American Experience and this is my second time doing it. It was a similar setting, a beautiful day, i was giving my remarks and i looked over and i noticed a gentleman who i recognize and he was wearing a very crisp golfs are golf shirt and i realized it was Speaker John Boehner and i looked at him and said mr. Speaker, nice of here nice of you to come here and talk and he said i cannot get away from politics. It just goes to show you what an amazing privilege you all have. [indiscernible] [inaudible] ] thank you for having me. In about six months, you have a very important choice to make, and extraordinary choice to make the you go and choose democratic nominee for president of united and i think you have to ask yourself two questions when you do this. The first question, who can be donald trump is the number one is who can win, who can beat donald trump is the number one question democratic primary voters have to ask themselves. In my opinion can he is a reckless and lawless president and he needs to be retired in 2020. [cheers and applause] mr. Delaney what who can do that . To me it is someone who has a real Economic Vision that all americans can get behind in terms of how we create a more prosperous future and actually do things to prepare our citizens for the world. It is a candidate who is running on real solutions, solutions that are workable, and we tell you how we are going to pay for them and we tell you how we are going to get them done, not impossible promises. That is the kind of candidate you need, someone who has got real ideas and can build the kind of Economic Future that we deserve and someone who can defend their positions and go toe to toe with the president of the United States. You need someone who can build a big tent where progressives, moderates, independents, and even disaffected republicans want to vote for that candidate, because that is how democrats won the 2018 house of representatives. We put up 40 great candidates who flipped republican districts to democratic districts. Two of them came from iowa. [applause] mr. Delaney the way i look at it, you did 5 of the work and you are only 1 of the violation. As always, iowa punched above its weight. But they are your model. They are common sense, problemsolving democrats who want to bring the country together. But the second question you need to ask yourself is who is going to be the next leader of the United States of america. Who will reestablish our role in the world and work with our allies and lead not only here but around the world . Who can bring people together and get things done . Weve spent decades talking about stuff and we havent been doing things. We need to build infrastructure, we need to be creating jobs in every town in this country, we need to fix a broken Healthcare System and lower pharmaceutical prices and deal with digital privacy. We need to get back in the transpacific partnership, which is something i commit to do in my first 20 days in office. If we were in that trade agreement today, which president obama was 100 right about, every acre of land in iowa would be worth more money, because every crop price would be higher. I cant look at farmers in the eye and say as your president , it will be better for you today i am elected the day i am elected. But we also need a president , lets face it, who will restore decency and honor and integrity to the most Sacred Office in the world, a president who will wake up every day and say i am not going to divide the American People. In fact, as part of my oath of office, i swear to never divide the American People, to do something in my power every single day to appeal to, as lincoln said, our better angels. I want to remind the American People that your enemy is not your fellow american. We are in this together. United we stand. As president , i will appeal to that every single day, and i will also stand up against hate and racism wherever it exists. [cheers and applause] mr. Delaney so i stand before you with great humility, because i believe im the right answer to those two questions. I am the person who can beat donald trump and im the person who can be the leader that this nation so desperately needs. I wouldnt be running for president on this i believe to that. About 10 years ago i wife, april, and i dedicated the rest of our life to public service. She is here with me. Thank you, april. For me it was an amazing moment. It was that moment in my life when i realized it is not about me. For all of us can that is the best day of our lives, when we realize it is not about me, it is that you, it is by doing anything i can to serve other human beings. Ice for to you that is my commitment. Maybe my journey i swear to you does my commitment. Maybe my journey has been different. I have lived the american dream, and im incredibly grateful for the magnificent opportunity this country has given to me. The opportunity to learn, to be the first in my family to go to college. The opportunity to build two businesses from scratch and create thousands of jobs as the entrepreneur in the private sector. The opportunity to be married to an amazing woman for 29 years 30 next week, sweetie. And have four terrific daughters. And most importantly, the opportunity to serve my country. I have lived the american dream. But the problem, it is much harder for young people today to live the life i have lived. Young people today will be the first generation of americans, first generation ever, not to do better than their parents. Think about that. Were leaving them debt they cannot repay, both fiscal debt and climate debt, because i believe it is an immortal debt were leaving them. I dont believe what young people need is more partisanship, more gridlock, or more rigid ideology. Havent we had enough of that . I think what the American People need israel solutions. Some of my big ideas is real solutions. Some of my big ideas are more pragmatic because im trying to get them done, then i am all in. Maybe it was the way i was raised. My dad was a union electrician. So what that means is he wired buildings for a living. Strongest man i ever knew. He could twist a rusted bolt open with his bare hands. It was honorable work, it was honest work. He worked hard. It wasnt glamorous, he wasnt a glamorous sky. But when you do an honest days work, you get a building that works. You turn on a light switch, the lights go on. You turn on a faucet, the water goes out. That is the problem with our current president , he doesnt care if anything works. He only cares about himself. He doesnt want to build a building that works for the you to build a building that he can put his name on he doesnt want to build a building that works. He wants to build a building that he can put his name on. That is why his businesses went into bankruptcy and i am admired in the committee. And the only one running who is a leader in the private sector and public sector. He stiffed working people like my dad, literally stiffed them, where my companys were voted the best places to work. Ask farmers in iowa, is the economy working for you . How is the trade were doing . Asked 40 of iowans who cannot afford basic necessities like their rent and food and utilities. Think about that, in a country as wealthy as we are. That is why we need real solutions. I have big ideas, but every one of my ideas can get on. Im calling for universal health care were every american gets health care is a basic human right. But i also think the American People should have choices. If they want to keep their Union Health Care and Medicare Advantage or medicare supplementals, they ought to be able to. That is a common sense approach to improving our Health Care System. I want to rebuild our country. I called for the biggest Infrastructure Program since the creation of the federal highway system, because infrastructure creates jobs and improve the standard of living and it makes our businesses more competitive. And i can get it done, because i was a leader on a bipartisan effort in congress to do that. I have called for a way to dealing with the climate crisis, but part of it is a big bet on american innovations, which we can do. We have to resolve this problem not only here, but around the world. These are the kind of solutions i will put forth as her president your president. You know what is even deeper than these policy discussions is how terribly divided we are closer in many ways that is the central issue facing this country, which is why i believe the challenge that the next president has to step forward and address is how we resort a sense of common purpose to who we are as a people. How do we remind the American People that this notion that we are all in this together is worth fighting for everything will they of our lives every single day of our lives . In 1958, john f. Kennedy gave an american speech, and in it he said we should not seek the republican answer, we should not seek the democratic answer, we should seek the right answer. He went on to say that we cannot seek a fix blame for the problems of the past. We should own our responsibility for our future. Together as americans. Which is why we have got to do common sense things and get them done on gun safety. Thank you, moms demand action, for being here. Which is why we have got a fix our Health Care System, lower pharmaceutical prices, build infrastructure, and do all these things. But we have to do it together, and we need a president who understands we are not going to agree with each other on everything. We dont want to live in a country where we agree with each other on everything. What you deserve and your kids deserve and my kids deserve to live in a country where the things we dont agree with each other on our debated with the truth, with honor, and with respect. But you also deserve to live in a country where we also get some things done and we spent some time focusing on the things we agree with each other on. That is what i will do as president. Will i will restore this sense of common purpose to who we are as a nation. I will resort dignity and decency to the office of the presidency. I will work every day to bring the American People together and stand up against hate. And i will work tirelessly to find the Common Ground that we need on all of these big issues and get things done. When im done being president , i want to have a long list of accomplishments, and i dont care if i get any credit for it. As i said a few minutes ago, this is not about me. This is about you. Is about me being in service to you. I will work for you. What you want is a president who is going to solve your problems, help you pursue opportunities, dial down the noise, and restore dignity to this country and lead internationally. That is what im committed to do as your president. [applause] mr. Delaney i will close by saying how i think about this. I think our selling responsibility as a nation solemn responsibility as a nation and as leaders is to leave the world better than we found it. That is what our predecessors did, and we can do it too. This is a magnificent country, and dont let anyone tell you otherwise. We have every advantage any nation could possibly want to have in 2019, except for one. We are divided. It is a disease right now. Trumps the symptom of the disease, but we have to cure the disease. And we need a real leader to cure the disease, someone who understands the problem and really wants to fix it. Someone who is going to urge the nation to adopt National Service to every Young American can serve their country in the military, god bless, and thank you to the people web server or community service, or rebuilding infrastructure, or being part of a climate accord. Can you imagine if a young person in reply what went down to new orleans to rebuild a levy and lived with a kid from seattle . They would realize that this notion of service is a privilege and would be instilled in them the rest of their lives. They would realize we have a lot more in common with each other than what divides us. They get the skills they need to help them make this next important decision in july. They can get huge amounts of scholarship and credits to afford college, but everyone of us would benefit because we would look at these young people and be proud of ourselves because we get something again and we would say that america is working again, we are working again because we can, and that is my commitment to you as president. And i want to thank you for having me. I would love your support. In six months, you have this important decision, do you want to send someone to the top of the ticket who can beat donald trump, do you want to send someone who can unify the station, and do you want to send someone to the white house who you can look at and say there is decency again in this Sacred Office, we are leading not only here but around the world, and america is back and americas working . God bless you all. Thank you for having me. Thank you for being here. Thank you for all you do for our democracy. And i think we have got five minutes, if anyone has a question. Ok, i think this young lady, your hand was up. We do voter education, very important to us. You commit to be transferred to voters by taking our test on positions . Mr. Delaney sure. Whats your name . Holly. Mr. Delaney all right, holly, but well see each other afterwards. Yes . [indiscernible] mr. Delaney hi, rachel. My question is what is your plan to invest in quality Early Education . Mr. Delaney im so glad first, save the children is a Great Organization and it has great leadership. One of the problems of our discussion on education is it is overly focused on college, which is incredibly important, and not enough time spent on little ones. Investment in Early Childhood education is the best investment we making our kids by any measure. By any measure. As president , i commit to make brca universal and to make to make prek universal and to make 03 available to every young child. Poor kids in this country start kindergarten having heard a third of the words of other kids. They never catch up. The best investment we can make in them and in our society is to take these little ones, who in many ways are too little to fail, who people dont focus on as much because they dont vote, and make sure every young person in this country has access to Early Childhood and prek so they get to the s tart every one of them deserves. Thank you, said the children. Save the children. Yes, sir . [indiscernible] mr. Delaney whats your name, sir . Ken has a great question. He shared with us thank you, ken, for sharing this that his wife has alzheimers, and he is a caregiver, and he is not reimbursed. 30 of the country are caregivers right now. They think that number will be 50 . I want to create compensation schemes so people can get paid for caregiving. People worried they will lose their jobs with technology, we will not lose jobs with technology. New ones will be created. Others will be displaced. Half our country will be caregivers. Thats a job. If you were to care for my mom and i were to care for your wife, we were to switch jobs, you would have to pay me and i would have to pay you. It is a job. We should have taxbased compensation structures for you. I also want to be the president who is going to cure alzheimers. We need a transformative investment in innovation. This is an important point, there has never been a better time to invest in basic research in the United States of america than today. You know why . Because we have tools that were never available to us, Computing Power and big data. The things that are changing our lives in so many ways are giving basic researchers tools that they never imagined. They can make breakthroughs in a day that used to take five years. We should be having massive investments at the basic Research Level in Life Sciences and in energy research, because we have to cure alzheimers, the most expensive disease in this country. We have to cure cancer. And we have to develop the technologies, battery, transmission, and carbon capture, that will save the planet. The United States of america is in a unique position to do that. We have the greatest entrepreneurs in the world, with the greatest universities in the world. What we are missing is a president who wants to invest in the future, in case, in solving in kids, in solving problems. I swear as president to give the biggest investment in research increase since the creation of the space program. Thank you, ken. Im going to go back lets go to this gentleman. [indiscernible] mr. Delaney most constructive criticism ive ever received in my life, and i will be honest with you i was born in a bluecollar family and the first in my family to go to college and i was the youngest ceo industry of been your stock exchange, i created two companies, ran for congress. I like doing things. Someone once said to me that velocity is her greatest strength and greatest weakness. The nice thing is, ive been at this for two years so i have not rush into this. Ive been to all 99 of your counties. [cheers and applause] mr. Delaney come on, all 99 counties. The last person who did that was barack obama. [cheers and applause] mr. Delaney that is pretty good company. I make sure i took my time. My time is up and im sorry i didnt get to your question. I want to be respectful of des moines register. Thank you for having me. If you have questions, we can grab them offstage. Enjoy the fair, and take care, everyone. [applause] thank you so much. This is for you. I wanted to give you a yamulke. The Jewish Community is with you. Mr. Delaney thank you. God bless you, sir. [indiscernible] mr. Delaney listen, the president has the biggest microphone in the world, the biggest loudspeaker in the world, the biggest bullet public. He should be using it to stand up against racism. He has not done it