-- and we will see the candidates here are a few times. hillary clinton will be here. from "the desble moines register >> host: our next guest is set

for the vice chair for the iowa democratic party and also president of afscme i willll counsel 61. danny homan welcome to c-span. >> guest: thank you, good morning to you all. plus i wanted to talk about looking at the polling data for the state of iowa and it's currently showing mr. trump with a good lead at this point as far as the state. as the number concern it?ha >> guest: no it doesn't concern me because it depends on what day, what polls, and a number of factors. i don't believe polls elect candidates.. i believe polls are a snapshot in time and i believe hillary clinton will do just fine here in the state of iowa. >> host: our previous guest from "the des moines register" talked about the republican influences in the state's history as far as electing republicans and democrats and

you think it's going to be good for hillary clinton this time around. what makes you say that? >> guest: i believe although iowa is probably considered republican leaning state i don't believe that has been recent history. barack obama won the state the last two times he ran. i believe that we had 12 years where we had a democratic governor. i believe that we have a democratic we control the iowa senate so i believe in this state folks are starting to look at the issues. when you look at the issues and donald trump and how he hasen attacked women, how he has attacked disabled people, how he is attacked veterans and prisoners of war, i don't

believe that sells real well with the majority of iowans. there is a base group that willy support that and apparently our governor is but i don't believe that common every day americans and iowans do. the one that i think is the most egregious is how he considers and thinks of women and treat them. i just believe those traits in the end are going to give hillary clinton a victory here in iowa. >> host: is their there a way looking at hillary clinton'sy chances by looking at how she c performed in the iowa caucuses that he can relate one to the other?etitiv >> guest: the iowa caucuses were very competitive race. eight years ago hillary and lost the iowa caucuses. this time around hillary clinton won those caucuses although was a narrow victory but she won

every stage of those caucuses. and finally one at the statest convention. i believe that hopefully the enthusiasm and what transpired during those caucuses will propel her to a victory on november 8.: >> host: our guest until 9:15 if you want to ask a question about iowa battlegroun state 202-74-88000 and (202)748-8001 for all others. mr. homan what has he on the ground effort for hillary clinton and the manpower and the hours you are investing until election day? >> guest: our organization is investing personally a lot of time and a lot of energy. we have a ton of volunteers thal are out every day canvassing,

getting absentee ballot requests , collecting those absentee ballots and folks want us to come back and get them and deliver them to the county auditors and checking with them that they mail them in. i that is right now for our organization and for the iowa democratic party i believe job one. a coordinated campaign is working very diligently to get the ballot requests in and then to get the ballot in. democrats have always had a great ground game. 74% of our membership voted in iowa four years ago. that is a very high turnout. enc and we are encouraging all of our members to go and vote. at least participate in the process because in addition to the presidential campaign this

year we have a very competitive house and senate race here in iowa and we want to make sure that folks are voting up and down the ballot and they are voting for folks that will take care of working men and women, not take care of the 1%, not take care of those that really don't need any help. >> host: one of the things the last couple of weeks that only coming from donald trump at previous cycles that is voter fraud. >> guest: pedro come i'm sorry it didn't catch her question. >> host: how is iowa set up as far as protecting against voter fraud and making sure when the boats come and they are counted properly. how was iowa set up? >> guest: iowa is set up just fine, pedro. our state auditor who is or secretary of state come excuse

me, who is a republican. as republicans have stated there is no voter fraud in iowa so i have absolutely every confidence in the world in all 99 counties based on the county folks and based on the state that there is going to be no problem whatsoever and voter fraud here in iowa and quite frankly i believe there is going to be nop problem with voter fraud in this country. i believe that theme that mr. trump is singing out there is really an attempt to drive down voters, not to protect voter fraud but to convince people not to go and vote. i think that's just a shame. this is a constitutional right. everyone should go vote. i believe everyone's vote will be counted and i have every confidence that it will be done fairly and accurately and at the

end of the day the votes will be counted and they will be counted accurately. i'm not worried about it at all. >> host: we will start in grundy center iowa, iowa resident for our guest danny homan. go ahead way and come you are on. >> caller: yes, my question was wondered by the representatives are talking more about the dash you're in iowa. i don't think we need to be another flint, michigan. thank you. >> guest: well, there are opponents on those sites of that pipeline issue and it is an issue that i don't know that i haven't been in one way or the other. i think as long as it's doney properly it will be okay. more o i really don't know. i'm more concerned with trying

to figure out how we put working men and women back to work in this state, how we give them a a fair and equitable rates and how we provide job security so that they can raise their families and put a roof over their head and feed them. so the pipeline, i know there are people that are passionate on both sides of that issue and that issue is going to beined. determined. i hope it can be determined without any more violence. >> host: just for some context mr. homan a little bit about this pipeline. >> host: there is a proposed pipeline that's going to run across the state of iowa and i don't exactly know where it ends up but it's taking oil from canada and my understanding some toxic oil and taking it down and having it refined somewhere else

in the country. so it's running across not only iowa but south dakota and north dakota and i think that's where some of the bigger pipes are running through some indian reservation land and they don't want anything to do with it. there are big farmers that have welcomed the pipeline cominge across their farmland and their others who haven't. so that's an issue that is sort of above my pay grade. we have members that supported and we have members that oppose it.it i it's not an issue that i deal with everyday. >> host: let's hear from nevada, iowa. carrie you are up next. >> caller: hi. hello mr. homan. donald trump lost the primaryy here in iowa. he called all iowa and. i was wondering if i could get your opinion as to why people in

iowa would still be voting for him. >> guest: to me that is the million dollar question. not only did he say we were, he has also said some very egregious things about veterans, about a family whose son was killed in action defending other troops. my son is an army veteran. my father is a world war ii army veteran. i am a veteran. my son was hit by an ied in iraq in 2007. for him to attack veterans is, i don't understand why any veteran anywhere would support this man. and then to attack senator mccain from arizona because he was taken prisoner during the

vietnam war. again, those things are just atrocious. this candidate has insulted about every group of u.s. citizens that could possibly be insulted other than his 1% friends and those that are supporting him with money and other issues. maam, i don't know.i to me -- he won't get my vote, i can tell you that and he will get the vote of anybody in myand family, and i hope iowans wake up on november 9 and hillary clinton has won this state and donald trump has lost the nation always said that we can get back

to trying to figure out how we can fix the problems that are in this country because there are some problems. i don't believe donald trump is the answer. i don't leave donaldson can fix the problem.e all he has done this divide and incite groups in this country. again that's my opinion and it's one i firmly believe. >> host: doc is up next from washington and connecticut. >> caller: i have a couple of questions.s. their any chance for the democratic party to change the present system in iowa?ate pris >> guest: iowa does not have a private -- system due to the wisdom of folks during the tom vilsack administration. iowa passed a law that prohibits private prisons in the state of iowa so fortunately we don't

have that plague here in this state and i hope we never do. with everything that has been publicized about private prisons and those companies that run those in the meals that they have cut saying we get x number of prisoners.to you are going to pay for x numbers of prisons. you are going to pay for x number of prisons. that clearly is a scheme that i hope the state never ever gets involved in. right now they can't do it in the state i'm very proud of that., >> host: we are talking to danny homan the first vice chair of the iowa democratic party. let's hear from roger and council bluffs, iowa. >> caller: hello.. good morning. >> host: good morning. roger, go ahead you are on.

>> caller: oh i'm sorry.hem? many of these limit controls on your senate etc. etc.. this is really an issue that should be settled in a democracy. we the people like i am sitting here watching c-span are the only ones who can do it in all we have to do is get off of our rear ends. do no we don't need other people to control that. and i would like to talk about hillary. people call her a liar. i don't understand other than what other people say. i have never heard a comment about her e-mails one way or the other. as secretary of state i feel she

can't talk about her duties as secretary of state. i think she has done a wonderful job and there a lot of people who say that she is wrong doing these things. >> guest: my opinion hillary clinton may be different than others.on i have known hillary clinton since 1991. i have a personal story about my relationship with hillary clinton. as i said earlier in 2007 i was hit by an ied in iraq. when i got the phonecall i was on vacation. that's a tough call to receive for a parent and i know there are a lot of parents who receive proper calls than i did. my son was alive but i made apo phonecall to my political director and said you know i would really like for my son to be the united states is this

possible so that his surgeries could be done here. she called senator harkin and who in turn called senator clinton and senator clinton made some phonecalls. she really didn't know me when the first president clinton was running. didn't know man wasn't running for president. i was not her constituent but i was a father of a soldier who wanted his son back in the united states so i could either with his surgeries were done. and that happened. my boy was stabilized, put on a plane returned to the united states and had his surgeries done in texas. so when people talk to me aboutn her being a liar and are not caring and not caring for anything other than herself anda her family, that's not the

hillary clinton that i know. every time i have the privilege of seeing her and talking to her her she always asks about my son. she asked about my 1-year-old daughter who is a junior at the university of northern iowa. she asked about my family. one of my best friends wife passed away in the last three or four months and hillary clinton sent him a personal letter of s condolence. this is the hillary clinton that i know and i know that everybody doesn't know her and i know that some people make their opinion on hillary clinton based on other news stations that have reported about her but you know that's not the hillary clinton that i know and it's personal for me. it is a lady who went out of her way to do something for younge servicemen bringing them back to

the states of his wife and family could be with him when he went through surgery. he is here, he is alive and he is pursuing a stream to become a professional bass fisherman. i will always be grateful for senator clinton for stepping up and helping make that happen. whatever she did, at least she took the call and she cared about my son's well-being and for that i will always be grateful. i think she is a verycompas compassionate, knowledgeable, smart and she is ready to lead this country and i think she will make up great president of this country after we elect hers and when she is sworn in january of next year. >> host: let's go to la grange georgia for our guest danny homan. >> caller: good morning.

i understand what that gentleman was saying and so proud that hillary clinton was able to help -s son but still the matter is what i am concerned about, and i think she is a good lady and i don't think donald trump is as bad as the media and people make him out to be. right now i am torn between bott and that might have been an isolated issue that hillary clinton and barack obama have destroyed our economy and ourn nation as it is right now. i don't know whether donald trump would be any better but my concerns are the e-mails that she refuses to release to findth out if there was anything illegal. my concerns are for the peopleia

who are in social security and ssi paid nobody seems to talk about barack obama and hillary clinton after eight years of office. we have only got an increased twice in a very minimum one at that. the prices of everything goes up and we have gotten no increases in six years. >> host: frank so much. mr. homan if you could respond. >> guest: well i am vastly approaching social security since i'm 63. i would rather have had president obama and hillary clinton in charge of social security and medicare than the republican plan of privatizing it and turning it over to a voucher system. quite frankly that scares the living daylights out of me.

i don't know what kind of raises you've got.. i know that there are a lot of citizens in this country thattr haven't gotten pay raises. i know that some have but to turn our social security and to turn medicaid over to a private entity and let them run it like they would run any of their other companies like donald trump has run many of his into the ground, that would scare mee so if there needs to be improvements we need to make sure social security is sound because quite frankly i hope i have many years of social security in my lifetime but i trust her antitrust president obama much more than i would trust donald trump and paul ryan who want to turn that system into a voucher system. i believe the only folks that are really going to be hurt on

that that really needed the most. unfortunately here in iowa we privatize our medicaid and medicare system and it's turning out to be a total failure with folks not getting the care they need, vendors not getting paid. anytime you turn that kind of stuff over for a -- to a for-profit company they're more worried about for-profits for-profit then service.ol i apologize sir. i guess maybe in a couple of years i will be worrying about my social security increase but you have a sound social security system only because of president obama and i believe secretary clinton will keep that systemtoe sound into the future for myself and for my kids. plus your guest is the union afscme iowa council 61 and the current vice chair of the iowawa democratic party. danny homan joins us to talk

about the battleground state of iowa. now you talked earlier about your perspective on cole mr. mr. homan but if you go totoracg realclearpolitics and you look at the current polls if you look at the average is showing chuck grassley 15 points ahead. could things change this for two weeks? >> guest: i think a lot of things can change in two weeks. i believe the polls are what they are. won i will figure out very late on the eighth or early on the 921. i will accept that unlike someme people who may not accept the results.i i can only go back to a time in iowa where there was a senator runn mt. pleasant who wass running against a sitting congressman, and iowa state

senator by the name of tom grossman. senator vilsack was behind double digits going into the last couple of weeks of that election. in that last two weeks, his fortunes turned and he won that election. he was down i believe by more than what patty judge is down and he turned around in two weeks time and won the election. he served eight years asas governor. he has gone down and served eight years as secretary of agriculture and i think one of the finest secretary if agriculture we ever had in this country. i am not willing to concede tha mr. grassley is going to win that race. worki i hope and we are working as hard as we can to help patty

judge win that race because mr. grassley quit doing his job. he quit doing his job when he would not give the nominee for the supreme court even a hearing it doesn't say that the man is going to get confirmed but he wouldn't even give him a hearing to send his nomination up to the full senate to let the full senate vote on that issue.they d all they had to do was do the hearing, send it to the full senate and let the senate doen what they wanted. the republicans wanted to kill that nomination they could have done it there but at least then they would have been following the constitution. i don't believe the founders of this country and are riders of the constitution never meant that we should wait until the next election to decide who that nominee is. barack obama is going to be the president of the next president

is sworn in. he made the nomination and that nomination should have gotten a hearing at least in the committee and if the committee moved to doubt it should have been a hearing with the full senate. chug grassley has quit working for iowa. he is quick working for this country and he needs to be replaced. patty >> host: with if you would mind a bit about patty judge fod those who don't know her.e know >> guest: i have known patty judge since she was a state. senator. she then went on and served as the agriculture secretary of agriculture here in iowa. she then went on and served as lieutenant governor for four years with chet culver and is now running for the united states senate.nd i m patty and i may not have always agreed on everything but i know one thing, patty judge will do her job and if that means upsetting me as the leader of

this union then she will do that but she will do her job. she will do what she believes ie the best for working men and women in this state and in this country and i fully support her candidacy. >> host: let's go to david in des moines.rning. hi dave, good morning. >> caller: good morning. actually sanders was cheated out of the democratic caucus and i would like to ask if the guest knows of someone named andrew phillips has sent me a letter from the democratic party. i think it's a bogus letter from a bogus person. he doesn't mention asking for my support for clinton. all it does is basically attacked trump.

in any event i voted on the first day that you could and i didn't vote for her or republicans. the clintons are -- as democrats. >> host: mr. homan go ahead.her guess why don't know if there was a question there but i will say this. i don't believe senator sanders was cheated at all in the iowa caucuses. it was a very close race. i believe the iowa caucuses although there were some issues were run fairly. there are people that don't believe that and that's their right. i don't know what letter the caller is talking about.y, i don all i can say is i don't believe i have ever sent a letter to anyone telling them who to vote for. if we sent out a letter we sent

out a letter with a comparison of the candidates and it is up to each individual person on who they vote for and i respect that right when they go in and vote. that is their vote, not mine and i don't have any control over who they vote for or how they vote. all i can do is try to educate. i take exception to the fact that senator sanders was cheated i was involved in every step of the caucuses. i was a hillary supporter but there were times where i believe that hillary did not do right in there were times when the sanders camp didn't go right. that time is done and that is f over and hillary is the campaign and i hope folks support her. i think senator sanders has

spread i was a delegate to the democratic national convention. senator sanders spoke at the convention. senator sanders is campaigning for hillary clinton. a lot of senator sanders ideas have been incorporated into the sandcratic national plank. so i believe we have a tuition program for kids going to college.that. i am concerned with that. i don't want my daughter to graduate from the university oft northern iowa with a mountain of debt staring her in the face the first day she walks off that stage. o senator sanders and nominee clinton have worked on a program jointly together and a lot of his ideas have been incorporate, into a lot of the things that she is doing along with a lot of ideas of other progressive folks , liberal folks, moderate folks in this country.

senator sanders should be involved. senator sanders is a good man. he wasn't my choice. that's okay. eight years ago president obama was not the person i support in the iowa caucus but i'venders sh certainly support him since he's been elected. senator sanders should be involved and i believe president clinton will have senator sanders involved in a lot of the things that she does and a lot of the programs and policies that she puts forward. post fa >> host: post falls idaho here is tom glen. >> caller: good morning mr. homan. i would like to say thank you for your service and grateful that you are able to get him home in one piece. i would like to ask you about superdelegates and the whole idea that one person is given a lead prior to the primary even being started. it seems very clear to me that

both parties are corrupt and the system is rigged in both partiet the party chooses our nominee, not the people. i heard it for my own ears republicans cannot win donald trump's 20 they were furious. they said people don't get to choose our politicians, we do and the democrats simply stop t that and it does not do the honest american voters seem like our votes are counted. it seems like it's the moneyuppt that ties these politicians and supports you people who run the party's are the only ones witht eny power to get anybody elected the citizens are getting the short end of the deal. i can imagine anyone thinking $20 trillion in debt is a gooda idea yet we have it.d, bot we have had a two-party system

since it started. both parties divide and separate the american people and maintain power. >> host: thank you, tom. >> guest: i will try to address superdelegates. i believe superdelegates did not elect hillary clinton.n. hillary clinton won the majority of pledged delegates. hillary clinton won the popular vote, the states that have a popular vote. there's no way you can address those that had caucuses so i don't know the superdelegates won the election.. i believe and i looked at this at one time. i believe hillary clinton had more pledged delegates than barack obama had eight years ago.m the superdelegate system is aem system that i guess i have served on both sides. i was at pledged delegate in wao denver and i was one of those

superdelegates in the last convention. sy i don't believe that system is rigged. the majority of the delegates that are like good are pledged delegates and hillary clinton t clearly won that election. oth as far as the other thing, we have some debt. i wish we didn't have the debt i t that's way above my payy grade. i know in my role with the party as the first vice chair, i am not the party chair.and i i go to the meetings than i do when i'm asked to do and i go out and try to make this better for folks and make sure that the party runs sufficiently and other than that i really don't know what to say to the i gentleman other than