.@turek4iowa: "I come from a family where we went to Goodwill, we shared clothes, had the wrong color lunch tickets, went to the free summer lunch program. I had an enormous amount of health care adversity — 21 surgeries before I was 12 years old. I want to go up there not for the prestige and position, but because we need more people who are actually going to go up there and work for the working class."
.@turek4iowa: "Every single one of his policies has been faux populism. The Trump tax cuts — 85% going to the wealthiest Americans. The most egregious example: the Big Beautiful Bill. Here in Iowa, we have 110,000 Iowans losing their health care, thousands more losing food assistance — just to give tax breaks to billionaires… We've moved into this second Gilded Age of haves and have-nots."
.@ACampaNajjar: "I've talked to staunch Republicans who have said to me a very powerful thing: Donald Trump lied to me. He promised no more wars and lower costs, and he's done the complete opposite. They feel betrayed.”
.@ACampaNajjar: “The one-two punch in saving our democracy and our economy is taking on corruption and tying that corruption to costs. It is not two separate things. Trump's grift, his greed, his corruption, his using tariffs as a bartering tool to expand his portfolio, the insider trading that takes place, the money in politics, the price gouging that comes with it—all of that's connected. The corruption is tied to costs… We have to defend our democracy to democratize our economy, and they are one and the same.”
.@julianastratton: “When people want to find money for something, they can find it. And we've heard this president say, ‘We don't have money for health care, we don't have money for child care, but here's how much money I want for a war that no one asked for.’ So this is really, to me, an issue of political will.”
.@juliastratton: “We need to speak out and remind taxpayers that this is their money being spent on things that no one has asked for — whether we're talking about this [UFC] match, whether we're talking about the Golden Ballroom.”
@TomSteyer: "The rule for a dictator is you have to do two things: you have to own the army, and you have to own the TV station. [Trump is], in effect, trying to own the TV station in the United States of America by controlling the information industry.”
@TomSteyer: "The rule for a dictator is you have to do two things: you have to own the army, and you have to own the TV station. [Trump is], in effect, trying to own the TV station in the United States of America by controlling the information industry.”
.@TomSteyer: "I'm the person in this race and the only person who will admit to wanting to tax billionaires like me more, close corporate tax loopholes and get the money to working people… And that's why billionaires are supporting everybody in this race but me, because they know that I'm the only person here who's really for structural change, for working people to make this state affordable.”
.@TomSteyer: "I started a business from scratch. He inherited $450 million from his poppy. I started a business and walked away from it and left billions of dollars on the table. And my wife and I said we're giving the money away while we're alive. He keeps stealing money. He's not a business person. He's a thief… He also has two ears and two eyes, but that doesn't make us the same person either.”
.@TomSteyer: "Trump's a criminal. I got 8 million signatures to impeach him in 2017 and 2018 because I've been in enough boardrooms; he's a crook. This [slush fund] is a crooked, completely illegal thing to do, and it's completely consistent with his behavior throughout his first and second terms. But in the second terms, his grifting has moved to a completely different level.”