Extended interview: Rob Sand on winning over Republican voters and leading Iowa
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[0:00] So Rob Sand.
[0:01] >> Yes.
[0:01] >> What's resonating the most with
[0:03] Republicans?
[0:05] >> Um I think a couple things. I mean I was
[0:08] a public corruption prosecutor and then
[0:10] two terms as state auditor. So fiscal
[0:11] responsibility anti-corruption.
[0:14] Um I also just like resonating makes me
[0:18] think of singing America the Beautiful
[0:19] which we've been doing at every town
[0:21] hall. Did 100 town halls last year, 100
[0:24] this year. We're doing it at some of our
[0:26] um
[0:28] gov events this week and people love it.
[0:32] They really do.
[0:33] >> When you first decided, hey, I'm going
[0:35] to make I'm going to start
[0:36] >> Yeah.
[0:38] >> my next campaign event as a singalong.
[0:40] >> Yeah.
[0:41] >> Who did you present that idea to? Your
[0:42] staff?
[0:43] >> I didn't ask anybody. I just did it.
[0:45] >> There were some people who told me they
[0:47] were going to go to the Urbandale. This
[0:49] was before I was doing the campaign, but
[0:50] it was in like I think it was spring of
[0:53] uh 25.
[0:55] There were some Republicans who were
[0:56] like, "Hey, we're going to go to the
[0:58] Urbanddale Democrats cuz we saw you're
[1:00] coming and we're really interested in
[1:01] what you have to say." And
[1:04] I had been thinking about doing
[1:06] something like this, but it means a lot
[1:07] more when you do it in mixed company.
[1:09] And the way we do it is we acknowledge
[1:10] before we even start singing that we are
[1:12] in mixed company. We ask people to
[1:14] applaud those who are attending, who are
[1:15] in the other political parties. So,
[1:17] you're literally being asked to clap for
[1:19] what most politicians want you to think
[1:21] of as your enemy. But what I'm trying to
[1:22] remind you is actually just t