Senator Gillibrand Speaks to Iowans Days after Launching Presidential Exploratory Committee

[TomCADem]

Source: whotv.com

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Senator (D-NY) Kirsten Gillibrand first announced her run for president in 2020 to Stephen Colbert. Now just days later, she was at the Peace Tree Brewing Company in Des Moines. Gillibrand followed in Sen. Elizabeth Warren's footsteps, visiting the state just days after launching her presidential exploratory committee to speak to Democratic Iowans.

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She focused mainly on family and children issues. "I will fight for your child as hard as I would fight for my own,” Gillibrand said. “That is why I am running. That is why I believe this campaign has to be very different. It has to be about who we are as Americans and what we are willing to fight for.” And that's why she spent time talking with 14-year-old Johanna Leonard after her speech.

"I think that's really really cool because not everybody would take enough time to have that long of a conversation with how many people are here,” Leonard said.

Gillibrand also spoke on gun control and immigration, changing her stance from years ago when she was in the House of Representatives. "Why should we be afraid in the United States of America of immigrants? We are a country founded by immigrants,” Gillibrand said.


Read more: https://whotv.com/2019/01/19/senator-gillibrand-speaks-to-iowans-days-after-launching-presidential-exploratory-committee/

[nwduke]

1. No support

For someone who stabbed Al Franken in the back for their own personal gain!

[saidsimplesimon]

4. Same here, No Support for her

We have many better qualified candidates running.

[brooklynite]

5. So, who does that leave you?

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

2. The only thing I see her saying is...

... mumble, mumble, gobbldeegook, mumble, mumble...

[SharonClark]

6. She did a great job at the Women's March and drew a large crowd

at the brew pub. We love candidates who come to Des Moines instead of hanging out at rural coffee shops.
They get a better feel for what Dems want.

[hotrod0808]

7. I will not drag her for Franken

though I have admired him since I was a kid watching SNL with my dad. My gripe with her is with her admonishment of his past when she got rich rich defending Big Tobacco, earning an "A" rating from NRA, and such other positions on which she took a sharp turn that we are supposed to forgive.

[BlueStater]

8. Oh, goody. Now I have to endure a bunch of candidates kissing Iowa's ass for the next year.

Since, for reasons that completely escape me, this ho-hum state gets to have the first say about who the presidential nominees for both parties will be EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME.

[Hangdog Slim]

9. But before she went. . .

Before she went to Iowa, however, she paid a visit to the Uber wealthy banker donor would be base of financial support on Wall Street. Which constituency is more important to her do you suppose? Same old bullshit song and dance.

[Reasonable Doubter]

10. Here's a Quarter, Kirsten...

I think Travis Tritt can explain it from there.