Alex Wagner

And to get that, we need new leaders.

Representative Turek obviously gets in the race a couple months later, has not taken the same position that I have.

And so Senator Schumer has been supporting him.

There's a super PAC that has been spending a significant amount of money bolstering Representative Turek in our primary.

The DSCC has been promoting various events and opening doors for Josh.

And look, they can do that, right?

But what I will tell you is if we want to win in November and we want to win back those voters that our party has lost, who are frustrated with a rigged system that has done devastating damage to our state's economy, that has, through their campaign finance system, corrupted our politics, I think it is going to be a hell of a lot easier to win those voters back with a candidate who can look voters in the eye and tell them, I don't know Chuck Schumer a damn thing.

I'm here to work for you, not for Truman, not for Trump, not for Elon Musk or the billionaires, the big corporations.

We need a senator who's going to do what's right for Iowa.

That's what I've done in the state Senate.

That's what I'll do in the U.S.

Senate.

So, look, I agree with a lot of your critique there of not meeting the moment.

Here's what I tell you.

Look, there's, you know, obviously if we win the nomination,

The reality is, and there's been reporting on this, Democrats in D.C.

still want to win this seat.

But you win the seat and then you have the ability to help shape what the general election looks like on your terms rather than on Washington's terms.

And, Tommy, I don't need to tell you, folks in Washington have not had a great track record in Iowa over the last decade.

14 years, right?