Hello and welcome to the Daily Signals live broadcast of the Family Leaders'

2023 Presidential Thanksgiving Family Forum.

My name is Rob Bluey.

I'm Executive Editor of the Daily Signal.

And I'm Janay Strache, Vice President

of Outreach and Advocacy at Heritage and Heritage Action.

We are so grateful to the family leader for hosting today's forum.

There are so many important issues facing Americans today, which is why it's so important to hear from the

candidates themselves and where they stand on these issues. I expect to hear from a

number of issues today Rob what are you expecting? Well we'll have have to see what Bob Vanderplatz,

who's in charge of the family leader, decides to bring up,

but my expectation is that they will talk about

some of the issues that matter most to evangelical Americans.

That's what the family leader has billed this as Governor Ron DeSantis. to evangelical

evangelical American. So that's what the family leader has billed this as governor

nicky haly and businessman Vivek Robeswami are all of the candidates who will

be around the table with Bob for this conversation is a unique setup it's not a

debate it's a family conversation as they've as they've described it and

Janet as somebody who's a native of Iowa you have witnessed this firsthand and

and have seen the process play out in Iowa tell us a little bit about why the state

takes it so seriously when it comes to presidential elections.

Yeah you're exactly right,

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