Alex Wagner

And when I went into class the next day, you know, I knew that I should should say something I wanted to.

But, you know, when I got there, I was I was scared.

I felt like there was a target on my back.

And so I didn't, and I stayed quiet.

And that feeling, that shame, frankly, of feeling like I should say something and didn't have the courage to do it, that stuck with me.

It just seared in my memory.

And so when I had the chance to give that testimony in 2011, I knew that I had to do it.

When I had the chance to run for the state Senate in 2011,

2018 and to fight back against terrible things that republicans are doing in our state i felt like i had to do it and when we my wife and i were talking about this potential for this campaign last year um running for the u.s senate with a two-year-old you know not easy um but it felt like it was something that we we had to do because i know what it feels like to need someone who's willing to fight for you

when you can't do that yourself.

And there are so many people in our state, I think across our country right now, who feel not exactly the same, obviously, the way that I did, but I think everybody deserves someone who's willing to go to bat for them, and that's what this campaign is all about.

Absolutely.

So I lived in Iowa for a year in 2007, loved it.

like the greatest- Were you in Iowa City?

71 and counting for us.

And how do Democrats get those voters back?

So I get this question a lot.

You know, Obama, Obama, Trump, Trump, Trump.

And one of the things that I think a lot of folks...

can be hard to understand is that the message that Barack Obama was running on in 2008 and 2012 about challenging the status quo, bringing change to Washington DC, challenging the establishment,