Alex Wagner

And when we defeat Ashley Hinson in November, I will be the youngest member of the U.S.

Senate.

We'll dethrone John Ossoff, which I'm looking forward to.

That as well.

Yeah, actually talking to someone who's running for Senate with a two-year-old is a rare thing.

So Iowa was the third state in the country to recognize same-sex marriage.

And I grew up with my two moms, Jackie and Terry.

My mom, Terry, is a fifth generation Iowa farm girl from Clayton County.

My mom, Jackie, is a nurse from central Wisconsin.

And it was incredible watching them have the chance to get married in 2009 after that Supreme Court ruling.

Two years later in 2011, I was a sophomore at the University of Iowa.

I was studying civil and environmental engineering, going to go build bridges and what have you.

But then when Republicans were pushing forward this proposal to reverse that Supreme Court decision by amending our Constitution, I knew that I had to speak up.

And the reason that was the case, and I haven't talked about this in the speech, but one of my very first –

homework assignments, I was in the eighth grade, this is in 2004, was to watch the Republican National Convention, those speeches, and then talk about it in class the next day.

And I will never forget what it was like watching

some of the most powerful people in our country, stand in front of the nation, talking about the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the war on terror, and then warn our country about the enemy from within.

And this radical Supreme Court decision from Massachusetts and the threat of gay marriage to our families, to our children, and realizing they're talking about my family.

They are talking about children like me.

And I was it was it was so scary.