From the New York Times? Amicable borrow. This is today in exactly three months, first election of a democratic presidential, primary ruby. Old in Ireland marking the officials start of the raised over the weekend. The party held its most important political event. In the run up to the election of fabled annual dinner attended almost every remaining candidate in the campaign. It's a closely watched test of who exactly has the political support, financial might and organizational prowess to become the nominee daily producers, clear tennis, ghetto and Monica Study EVA travelled to deploy to meet up with political correspondent, Red Epstein,

was covering the event its Monday November. For so many can I find it not really knowing what to expect this liberty and justice celebration wasn't supposed to start until six hundred and thirty testing. I don't even have headphones on yet but we handed over to the venue at about ten in the morning, nine forty I m on a Friday morning, in the morning. Iowa, it's a bit chile, its thirty seven Chris morning

our Windsor jacket already going out to the main street. There's this massive crowded, peep It's not like any political events have been prevented. so the main event as that of export stadium, actually, very because the whole thing feels like a college football game. But instead of two teams, there are fourteen or fifteen democratic presidential candidate.

So each candidate, each team has staked out their own area and they each have ever gonna have a color right. Here is black and white. I've got my better sweatshirt on their own colored. Better work is black why Corey Booker's Red Elizabeth, worn as a sort of styrofoam green that her team branded as liberty, Green Anthony the borders are dressed up like the statue of liberty. They also have their own use it. There are competing Margie Bands some better than others, and I wonder why someone Supporters are doing this choreographed dance in the street. The whole thing just cause this via above dig, tailgate stacks people sharing, hammers and money.

And I go around and start talking to people at these various camps in my ear I'm here to follow Andrew around the country like I've been doing since March, is the most inspiring candidate as smart as most everything candidate. I am ever thing, I'm not been this inspired in my entire life and go anywhere in do anything repeat, untasted. Why I'm here, while I'm here to support job, because I think that he's the best chance for the Democrats to be resident trump here. That word, who got lots of giant banners and and lots of big signs in all kinds of exciting thing that we plan to do inside. So it's gonna be crazy, I am very less of a horn where it was my favorite forever. Bernie answer me

He was my men in two thousand. Sixteen he still mind man. We dispel the myth of the burning rose. I say we are the silver C and sisters so technically. This is a fundraiser for the Democratic Party in Ireland and their Who is that people can go? Big donors can pay for dinner and have special reserves either for the event and uncandid also by groups of tickets, that they give to their supporters for Britain, those reboot and get the fancy did but they do get to go sit in the stadium and cheer for their candidate, because the way this works every candidate upon the stage in the middle of a dinner for their faces on the Ro Tran and they give a twelve minutes beach one after another, and all these importers are like air giant cheering squads. So it's a fundraiser, but because it

the last time all the candidates will be at the same event ahead of the ILO carcass it's become something bigger than that, the test of who has momentum and I ve gone even more significant. Since two thousand and seven Why Iowa, when once more and about the state I mean, obviously it's very important in terms of the election and the primarily that we're trying to duplicate big statement that the Obama campaign had lots of people. I talk to, mention what happened. Rock Obama won the presidency in two thousand and seven, because Obama is actually important because Barack Obama got his big start Nile with its at the stem He was lagging behind Hillary Clinton and then he gave this rousing speech at the dinner back. Then it was called the Jefferson Jackson Dinner, and gave us campaign this huge surge. And he went on to win Iowa and then, of course, the democratic domination. So that's the dream of how this goes.

And one candidate in particular seems to be hoping to recreate that moment. Pete Buddha judge he's been, using a ton of his campaigns, energy and resources, and I were in recent weeks, on Friday morning, the times actually released a poor showing that he was point third in Iowa and actually point above Joe Biden, and so you can feel this particular energy with his campaign and his supporters. The biggest trap seems to be for him and for others, but worn Ernie is not taking part in the Indian sees fundraiser and we came from Michigan to support rural

Bernie Sanders supporters are hand a complicated because they're not actually going into the event he's uncorrupted, all the others take corporate money. So they say because of its connection to corporate sponsors and their complicated relationship with urgency and then there is better work. What just happened. Got a news alert and it says you is democratic presidential for better work and notice, he's ending his campaign in power out on the ground. Afternoon, interacting with better supporters, he announces that he's dropping out of the race and won't be speaking at the dinner. So just like that, fourteen teams becomes thirteen and we gotta meet up with red outside the arena our you like. We should hope. I know when it's either the night,

and I are right now, there's Watching a parade of Djibouti Judge supporters addressed in yellow and blue there's about two thousand, and they are marching up third street here in mine, may have bells their genuine, making a lot of noise Let's go see what happens All the way back thinks we're going to work and thanks for staying home for treating patients and having patience for being on the front lines while having our backs thanks for working together and playing the music. You love

U S bank can't thank you enough, but we can do our part. That's why we ve donated millions to help our customers, employees and communities in need equal housing lender. Member after I see. What happens when this dinner actually starts? We walk in the Rina that it was, and is the minor league basketball hockey rain here into mine. So it seats about sixteen thousand people. Each campaigns supporters had decorated There are sections, so there were ring, of signs around the different levels, with the candles aims on them. We were sitting about four stories above or in floor of the arena. Word rolled thousand table was arranged almost like a very large.

Wedding party Cory Booker is mingling on the floor and I can't tell who's with it looks like a mighty Chris dog, but who ran for president during two thousand and eight, but it's kind of far away. So it's hard to tell with black, clad busboys running around and people in suits some sitting around the table. These were the fat cats, the big donors. The seats above that were people in tee shirts, the supporters of the candidates who had gotten free tickets from the campaign and it was a real difference between the different groups of people, please. Bumblebee beginning shortly. There's an elevated stage in the middle of the floor with force machines on its corner. A long walk waste that the candidates used coming out to get to the stage

above, it is the giant. Video born jumbotron bear the other video board, which is a permanent husband alarm at the thought of him when he was and then we got to what people are waiting for, which was the candidates in the first one was people to judge the merest I've been in the end. This is this is high hopes. Had all the candidates pick one on songs and butchers is high hopes from a pen. It's a disco which is a very catchy bump bump on came on the two thousand or so people. He came from Budapest, so screaming wrap like dancing. Looking at one

Were you thank you CASA, Herrera, Ventre Buttigieg, is wearing a suit jacket. Usually he comes out in just a Tata. A blue tie dye white shirt. So you know it's a SIRI. But for him that he put a code, so that leads right into to his speech. First time I came to this state was ass, a volunteer to knock on doors for a presidential candidate, a young man with a funny name, and we knew the stakes are high. Then the stakes are colossal. Now he talks about looking at the window of his office himself band. Seeing how the decaying midwest making a comeback my office is about six hours that way down. I ate it and not the wind.

As I see the outlines of our ethanol plant, which is why I understand the measure of this president's betrayal, american farmers, and I know how to talk about. It contrasts himself with president from, and I don't have to throw myself a military parade to see what a convoy looks like because I was writing one around Afghanistan right about this time. This president was taping season. Seven other celebrity apprentice, so that tough talks back into work against me and he speaks about going hunting with his husbands, father in Michigan over Thanksgiving Weekend, rural Michigan. You cannot stop a man from going deer hunting with as husbands, father and only the end in the last couple minutes does he get to show. The way

meat and potatoes of what he's talking about, but I also will not tire from the effort to include everyone in this future. We are trying to build progressive moderates and republicans of conscience, who are ready for a change. The time has come, which is the contrast with those with war We will fight when we must fight so warrens big theme, in this race? Is that she is a fighter and she's gonna fight for the big progressive causes, but I will now allow us to get so wrapped up in the fighting that we start to think fighting is the point. The point is: lies on the other side of the fight. He is saying, she alienates other. So are you ready to bring those countries together? Then? Let us make history together and we will,

have a lot to celebrate in November of next year, and we will know where to go from there. Thank you. Thank you. Democrats. Thank you. So much for the kids just finished four people in this room who I've been paying attention to his caucus and a campaign, that's about Elizabeth Warren whose campaign is just to have the fight and take the fight to people who she believes that sponsor problems in the country who do judges telling a different story talking about bringing people together from outside the core elements of the party? What is well

now, though, by that I mean that the Biden walks and he's immediately it at a disadvantage, because some of the sections that his campaign to preserve our are mostly empty. I would Democrats, let me get right to it as a cup of anxiety learned the last couple weeks, number one is that lattimer uprooting? Don't want me to be president and number So Donald Trump, don't want me to be denominated. He launches into the big theme his campaign, which is, he is the most delectable everybody beta beat on worker drum if an arbitrary, and he knows it, he knows it folks

Look and then he pivots immediately into an attack on Elizabeth Warren. We can do this, we can do it quickly without taxi the middle class. We can make sure that the hundred sixty million people will have helped the jurors they like can keep it if they want and if not they can buy in four Medicare like proposal. Ladies and gentlemen, I will not take for years for five years. Here's the happen. It will happen immediately immediately. You know it landed with less enthusiasm, then what we saw from put a judge in part because he had far fewer people, but also because Joe Biden

isn't somebody who is lighting these big rooms of activists on fire. The rationale for the Biden campaign is much more about winning over casual voters or people who are not spending six hours on a Friday night. At these events, people who are gonna go vote but less activists, So I gotta get up. Remember we are, let's take this country back and began to lead the world again. Thank you. Thank you. So the next leading candidate to come out was list before you leave Senator Elizabeth WAR has a green light. Eggs are waiting around for peoples often cheer their waving flags of waving, a giant Warren Banner that comes down through several sections of the arena and her people cheered

so loudly and for such an extended amount of time that her a time to speak, started counting down. She had to turn to them and soda with palms down like encourage them to kind of cut it out, so that you could begin her speech, hello, I awoke, and then She did. It was as if she had and this all along to be a rebuttal. To put a judging by a lot of people are afraid of big structural change afraid because there are already rich and powerful and they may lose influence of freight because they see in America where they won't be able to make the change they need- and she said well not me, I believe in trains- and I know we can get it done. I believe,

change and I know it done so that was kind of the set up for her speech and later there is a section where she really stuck the knife in them any. Why terms on this stage and tells you they can make change with out of fight, is not going to win that fight? Twenty twenty is our time in history,

our time to dream big fight hard and when wow that I have not heard Elizabeth Warren go so hard at Buttigieg and Biden and their ideas of almost all the way down there to where she and Bernie Sanders are as if she didn't. I just knew a new frontier for her telling twelve or thirteen thousand people here they'll lose if they dominate somebody who is not fully investigated. The most progressive I hear I later in the night, Bernie Sanders came on State Senator Bernie Sanders

and there's electoral waiting for him everyone else with paste the stage and pointed injustice to their supporters. He stood at the lectern with prepared notes on paper that he too had rolled up in his suit jacket and gave his Democrats that was Bernie Sanders, did not bring any supporters to this event and instead had a march across town in the rain tonight, that's a model. What candidate we are supporting are in agreement that we must debate the both dangerous press,

in the history of our country, and then he gave what anyone in that crowd would have recognised as condensed version of the Standard Bernie Sanders some speech at a time of mass of income and wealth inequality. The democratic party must be calm. The party of the working class this country was seen. The Bernie greatest hits condensed eleven and a half minutes. So that's for candidates. What about the other? Nine in the other Candidates were still nine months after this re started, doing a fair amount of introducing themselves to these activists into our caucus going, eleven years later, one state passed a dividend were now everyone and that state gets between one and two thousand dollars a year. No questions asked and what state is that

and how does Alaska pay for it? And what is the oil of the twenty first century? Iowa technology, software, self driving cars and true, or did Andrew Yang, talked about his universal basic income proposal and I started my career fighting for the people. In fact, the first day I walked until court room. I spoke five words Comma Harris for the people. Kamel harrassed talked about her career as a prosecutor, but I come from the writ February's.

No storm in the middle of Minnesota in Clover Shore said that she would win big in the MID West. I have one every race every place every time in the rattle of red congressional districts, because if I ever nominee, I won't spire engage at night. This nation, like no other nominees, can encourage Booker talked about not criticising other Democrats and focusing instead on personal Trump Iowa. I see you, I love you, I see you, I love you together. We will

the last two speakers. At night, John Delaney, the former congressmen from Maryland and Steve Bullock, the Governor Montana, Governor Symbolic of Montana, is all there is left. I think his people, the only section, is still forty stand up. You can see them by the and everyone, including the sort of public address staff of the event, seem to be exhausted. Wait. Oh no, but it's not Corey Booker Symbolic. It is foreseen board and by the time the bullet came out Here we go much of his speech was in fact making jokes about how no one was still left in the audience

and by the end in there was no, you didn't have to be traffic because everyone had already left the who is it thirty point basketball game. February and not the world Series regulation Native road, and so you told us at the beginning of this event that one of the reasons that this about myself is because it turned the tides for Obama in its favour twelve years ago, that it really shifted the momentum and then led him to winning I work in a nomination and becoming president.

You think anybody had that sort of moment this here and Iowa, or was it too difficult with thirteen candidates taking the stage? Will I mean the short answer is we'll see so the more complicated answer is when Obama gave that speech twelve years ago. It was a pretty negative speech about Hillary Clinton. Alot of it was about why Obama was The best Canada, but a lot of it was about why Hillary Clinton was not in the only person who, through came out with that kind of bites. Night was Elizabeth warrant. And will see whether she sustains this sort of argument about Biden and Buddha judge. Throughout or whether it

since a one time only event whether this is cover new phase of the campaign for her or whether this was something she rolled out just for tonight. Red thanking, thank you. Now we spent twelve hours. Together, I'm sure I'll be back. In February. I have not seen the pool, of our voters likely to participate in February Caucasus, conducted by the times and sea and a college and released on Friday shoes, the top for candidate locked in an extremely tight rates with Joe Biden, the front runner National

pulling forced in Ireland at seventeen percent behind work whose pulling and twenty two percent sanders at nineteen and booted at eighty. In an interview Buddhist, it said that the ILO carcasses are increasingly becoming a two way race between him and warn. The contrast are real. He sat there substantive, respectful policy contrast, but there we are very bad.

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