Alex Wagner

Chuck Grassley famously does the 99 County tour every year.

We'll do that in the U.S.

Senate.

And we'll make sure that we have a candidate in this race and then a senator who actually is listening to the people and fighting to go to work for them.

Will you emulate Grassley's Twitter style of just being like,

My staff doesn't let me tweet anymore.

So, which is probably for the best.

Yeah, Tom Harkin, for sure.

You know, look, my mom, Terry, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when I was seven years old.

It's a devastating disease, and I watched as I was growing up her physical decline into a wheelchair.

And you look, having gay parents, even in Johnson County in the 90s and early 2000s was not easy, but having a parent in a wheelchair was also really tough.

And without the Americans with Disabilities Act, and this is a point where Representative Turk and I, I think both are incredibly grateful to Senator Harkin for his leadership on that.

That made a huge difference for my family.

That time was also when I learned the importance of

what a labor union can do for a family.

My mom, Jackie, was a SEIU nurse at the University of Iowa Hospital.

She was laid off during the Great Recession, and that contract that got negotiated on her behalf made a huge difference for our family at a really tough time.

You know, I think about Senator Harkin.

I think about his work with Americans with Disabilities Act.

I think about him being a relentless champion for labor unions.