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Turek builds on campaign momentum with Obama endorsement · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Now for his first interviewsins
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  Speaker 1: being endorsed by Barack Obama's Josh sure at the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: nominee for US Senate in Iowa. First of all, that
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  Speaker 1: brought me back. I spent both campaign cycles traveling with
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  Speaker 1: Barack Obama. He used to play basketball on election day
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  Speaker 1: for good luck. The man loves basketball more than most things.
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  Speaker 1: Let me start by just asking you about the endorsement,
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  Speaker 1: because he is pretty selective about how he goes out
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  Speaker 1: and endorses. How did that come to be?
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  Speaker 2: I'm honestly not sure. I had sat down with David Axelrod,
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  Speaker 2: chatted with him in Chicago. I believe he reached out
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  Speaker 2: to President Obama said we've got an unbelievable candidate here
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  Speaker 2: from Iowa, that we can win this thing, we can
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  Speaker 2: flip the Senate. And it came about, And honestly, I'll
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  Speaker 2: give him credit. He was not given that game away.
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  Speaker 2: He was a great shooter. He missed his first shot,
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  Speaker 2: and after that he rolled off about fifteen to twenty
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  Speaker 2: in a row.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, you couldn't all see them in the commercials.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's going to probably appreciate you giving him
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  Speaker 1: some extra credit for how he did that.
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  Speaker 2: At the end, I was genuinely impressed as somebody that
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  Speaker 2: has spent a lot of my adult life in their shooting.
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  Speaker 2: He's a good shooter. We're both lefties as well.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. I know from spending a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time with him, he has a lot of good political advice. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you're the person who's the nominee there, you know what
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  Speaker 1: the people of Iowa need. Did he give you any
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  Speaker 1: advice that stuck with you?
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  Speaker 2: He said, listen actively listen. And the other thing that
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  Speaker 2: he said to me was make sure that you're going
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  Speaker 2: out to all ninety nine counties, every single rural community,
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  Speaker 2: small community, mid sized community. And that's what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: And everywhere that we're going, all across the Iowa urban areas,
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  Speaker 2: rural areas, we're hearing the same things. Islands are hurting,
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  Speaker 2: they're struggling, they're struggling just to keep food on the table,
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  Speaker 2: a roof above their head. They're ready to have somebody
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  Speaker 2: that's actually going to be there to represent them, to
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  Speaker 2: represent the workers in the middle classes being hollowed out
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  Speaker 2: because islands are suffering.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know they are, and I know it has
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  Speaker 1: one of the highest cancer rates in the country, Rural
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  Speaker 1: farmers are struggling, people are being hit by these tariffs,
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  Speaker 1: all things I know you talk about, and I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about all of that. I just want to
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  Speaker 1: ask you first about the reaction from a spokesperson for
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Hintson, who, of course everybody watching knows, is your
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  Speaker 1: Republican opponent. The spokes responded to the endorsement by saying,
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  Speaker 1: another liberal endorses Josh Kirk Cherik, shocking. I guess, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's their best attempt at dismissing this, like
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what'd you make of that.
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  Speaker 2: I think they know exactly what we know, which is
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  Speaker 2: everywhere that we're going all across Iowa, we're getting independence,
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  Speaker 2: We're getting moderate Republicans that are looking around at a
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  Speaker 2: state that they no longer recognize. This is a state
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  Speaker 2: that is seeing our economy contract. We're basically dead last
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  Speaker 2: for every healthcare metric. Of the Medicaid cuts that Ashley
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  Speaker 2: Hintson has voted for, She's voted four times in favor
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  Speaker 2: of the tariffs, which have now we leave the nation
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  Speaker 2: in farm foreclosures. Six times she's voted in favor of
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  Speaker 2: continuing the war and Iran Islands are ready for change.
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  Speaker 2: She knows it. The polls are showing it, and we're
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  Speaker 2: ready to get win this thing. We've got ninety seven
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  Speaker 2: days Janie's estate and change the country.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I want to turn to the rising You talked
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  Speaker 1: about the rising cost of living in healthcare, and those
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  Speaker 1: are the top two issues of course for Iowans, according
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  Speaker 1: to I should note a Fox News poll. And there's
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  Speaker 1: been some news this week about this because yesterday the
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  Speaker 1: Term of Administration announced it is ending Biden era subsidies
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  Speaker 1: that helped keep costs down from Medicare drug coverage. Seniors
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  Speaker 1: who will will see their premiums go up next year
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  Speaker 1: will be notified in the fall, right before the election,
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  Speaker 1: which seems like frankly insane politics to me. But more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: it's very bad policy. Iowa has an agent population, what
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  Speaker 1: have you. What is the impact of something like that
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  Speaker 1: going to be on the people of Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be dramatic because we're already in a
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  Speaker 2: healthcare crisis. I mean, we're already leading the nation in
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  Speaker 2: cancer rates because of the Big beautiful Bill. We're looking
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and ten thousand islands losing their healthcare losing
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  Speaker 2: ACA subsidies. We're looking at one hundred and nineteen thousand
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  Speaker 2: islands seeing their healthcare premiums double, a triple. Just since
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  Speaker 2: Ashley Henson has been elected, we've closed over three hundred
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  Speaker 2: more healthcare clinics we've opened. It's decimating. Islands recognize that
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  Speaker 2: the healthcare system is fundamentally broken, and they're ready to
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  Speaker 2: have somebody in the US Senate like myself, that is
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  Speaker 2: going to go out there and actually fight for them
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  Speaker 2: for affordable health care and affordable pharmaceuticals, a livable wage,
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  Speaker 2: and affordable housing.
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  Speaker 1: If you're elected, there's going to be a lot you
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  Speaker 1: could be in the Senate majority. Possibly there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: that will be on the plates of Congress and the
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  Speaker 1: expectation of holding Trump accountable and accountability for members of
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  Speaker 1: his cabinet, but also a lot that people in the
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  Speaker 1: state want you to do. What's the first time you're agenda,
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  Speaker 1: what's the first thing you'd want to focus on, and
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  Speaker 1: how'd you want how would you do it?
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  Speaker 2: It is it's going to be looking out for the
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  Speaker 2: middle class, it's going to be looking out for workers.
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  Speaker 2: I think the very first bill I'm going to sponsor
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  Speaker 2: is a Dignity and Work bill, raise the minimum wage federally,
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  Speaker 2: do away with fourteen C certificates. This allows a for
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  Speaker 2: profit business to pay someone just due to a disability,
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  Speaker 2: a sub minimum wage, and pass the pro Act as well.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure we've got collective bargaining rights back to every
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  Speaker 2: single one of our workers. But I'm deeply, deeply committed
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  Speaker 2: to ensuring that every single American, every eye one, has
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  Speaker 2: access to affordable and accessible healthcare and would love to
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  Speaker 2: see us arrive as something like a public option