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Too many in the media treat the presidential contest like “Dancing with the Stars" or a World Series contest. It's not.

The decision Iowans face is not whether you like Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. It's not about who is ahead in the polls or who said something dumb yesterday. This enormously important election is about you and your family and what happens to us all over the next four years.

As Iowans well know, Hillary Clinton and I had some very vigorous debates. We do not agree on every issue. But there is no question that she is, far and away, the superior candidate in this election. That is why I intend to work as hard as I can to see that she is elected and Trump is defeated.

At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, we must not elect a president who wants to resurrect failed trickle-down economics. When the very rich are becoming much richer and there has been a ten-fold increase in the number of billionaires since the year 2000, it is economic insanity for Trump to propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks to the top 1 percent. His plan to scrap the estate tax would provide a $53 billion tax break to the Walton family of Wal-Mart, the wealthiest family in America. Who else would benefit? Trump’s own family would get a $4 billion tax break.