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Values of the people in the district you're trying to represent? >> not at all. and when we have folks from all over the nation come help us out we talk -- i've been doing a town hall tour, doing a town haul in all 39 counties, we call it the can't fake showing up tour, we go out and talk about immigration all the time and how we need an immigrant workforce in this district. and we have two pork plants that the executive directors of those places have talked about the need for that. last harvest i went to one of the grain elevators. when i talked to their board, they mentioned how they needed ...

Genocide, association with white nationalists and neo-nazis, retweeting them, is that the values of the people in the district you're trying to represent? >> not at all. and when we have folks from all over the nation come help us out we talk -- i've been doing a town hall tour, doing a town haul in all 39 counties, we call it the can't fake showing up tour, we go out and talk about immigration all the time and how we need an immigrant workforce in this district. and we have two pork plants that the executive directors of those places have talked about the need for that. last harvest i went to...

Genocide, association with white nationalists and neo-nazis, retweeting them, is that the values of the people in the district you're trying to represent? >> not at all. and when we have folks from all over the nation come help us out we talk -- i've been doing a town hall tour, doing a town haul in all 39 counties, we call it the can't fake showing up tour, we go out and talk about immigration all the time and how we need an immigrant workforce in this district. and we have two pork plants that the executive directors of those places have talked about the need for that. last harvest i went to...

Been trying to move their grain. in fact, i just got off the phone a few minutes ago with the highway department to make sure that even when the roads close for automobiles that grain trucks are able to still get through, because obviously, you've got a year of work in those grain elevators down there and now people are forced to get their grain out of there and get it to market or lose everything. >> absolutely. that is their livelihood, you mentioned a year's work, everything leading up to that and getting in those vehicles, those grain trucks. but the priority is to keep people safe. it's a...

On people and make sure that they are okay. i went straight into the heart of the main damage area near the grain elevators and went to a home where there was a family that was trapped in a basement. a lady named jody and her children, cameron and samantha, 11 and 9 years old approximately and another gentleman helping them out of the basement. i went and helped jody and the kids out of basement. i held them there while they had a good cry because they just lost everything they own. their house was wiped out. their cars were gone. their dog was gone, the kids were crying for their dog. it was ...