Iowa Democrats’ revived Steak Fry fundraiser this fall will be a platform for the party’s renewed emphasis on economic populism.

That much is clear from the trio of headliners announced Wednesday by the Polk County Democratic Party: U.S. Reps. Cheri Bustos, Seth Moulton and Tim Ryan. All three have been prominent in the party’s recent efforts to build an economic agenda appealing to working-class voters, organizers said.

That electoral cohort has drifted away from Democrats in recent years, particularly in the industrial Midwest, and was critical to Republican President Donald Trump’s victory in 2016.

“Clearly, we need to get back to an economic message,” Moulton said Tuesday in an interview with The Des Moines Register. “We need to listen. We need to hear the frustrations of people out there who are losing their jobs, who not making the wages they used to make, and we need to talk about real solutions.”

The Steak Fry, an Iowa political tradition hosted for decades by former U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, has a rich history of attracting big names in Democratic politics — including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama before they became president and a long list of vice presidents, governors and U.S. senators.

The event has been defunct since Harkin’s retirement in 2014 but is being revived by Polk County Democrats. It’s scheduled for Sept. 30 at Water Works Park in Des Moines. Tickets start at $35.

“This event is about party building and Democratic values, and our three headliners fully embody what it means to be a Democrat,” Polk County Democrats Chairman Sean Bagniewski said in a statement announcing the lineup.

Taken together, the trio represents a wing of the national Democratic Party calling on national leaders to turn away from character-driven criticism of Trump, hot-button social issues and identity politics in favor of an economic message of better jobs and higher wages.

Bustos and Ryan are rust-belt Democrats who carried districts in 2016 that Trump either won or substantially overperformed when compared with previous GOP candidates. Ryan and Moulton have been among the most prominent Democratic critics of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, with Ryan actively challenging her for the leadership post late last year.

In interviews Tuesday, all three argued that the party’s return to electoral relevance and congressional majorities will depend on finding common ground with a wider swath of voters.

“I’ve been a Democrat my whole life,” said Bustos, a three-term incumbent from western Illinois. “My values are very much in line with the rest of my colleagues, but what I choose to talk about and what I choose to focus on has everything to do with jobs and wages and our future.”

Moulton, a two-term representative, has already been mentioned as a potential presidential candidate, but shot down speculation that a trip to Iowa might signal presidential aspirations in an interview on Tuesday.

He visited the state last year to campaign with 3rd District candidate Jim Mowrer, he said, and is returning now in hopes of electing more Democrats to Congress in 2018.

Ryan, an eight-term Congressman from industrial northeast Ohio, previously visited Des Moines in June, making a late-morning visit to Cooney’s Tavern in Beaverdale. Visiting Iowa, he said, is valuable to elevating his profile and his economy-first message.

“My only real goal now is to be a national leader in shaping the party,” he said Tuesday. “Wherever that takes me, that takes me. I’m just really frustrated that we are where we are as Democrats, and I feel like maybe we need a guy from a place like Youngstown, Ohio, to take more of a leadership role in the party, and that’s what I’m doing.”

In addition to Bustos, Moulton and Ryan, the Polk County Steak Fry will feature speeches from the party’s wide field of gubernatorial candidates, as well as current and former elected officials.