Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Maugh.

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Here we are on overtime.

Alex has traveling with the campaigns across Iowa affected your opinion on whether or not

Iowa should be first in the Democratic primary.

Oh, man.

Any questions?

Um, let me say one thing about Iowa because I think this is unspoken.

There is, the reason Steve King is a congressman from Iowa is because the demographics of Iowa are changing.

There are a lot of immigrants in Iowa.

Some of them are undocumented.

Some of them are not.

But the face of Iowa is changing and changing rapidly, especially in the labor market.

And so we shouldn't just dismiss Iowa as an all-white state.

Having said that, it is pretty damn white.

So, so do I think that, I mean, I was interviewing Julien Castro this week.

And, you know, I think that there is a reasonable argument to be made that the party, if it wants to accurately reflect its electorate,

should at least rotate among states that have higher Hispanic and African-American populations.

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