South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks today in Iowa, home of the first-in-the-nation caucuses. | Getty First in Playbook: Pete Buttigieg's speech at Progress Iowa's Corn Feed

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG is in Des Moines to speak at Progress Iowa’s Corn Feed: HERE IS WHAT HE’LL SAY: “Nothing about politics is theoretical for me. I’ve sat with loved ones facing cancer and tried to figure out what we would do if Congress kicks them off Obamacare. I’ve looked into the eyes of an 8-year old American boy who lost his father to deportation and tried to tell him things were going to be okay. I’ve called 911 on a young man having an overdose, and rolled him over so he wouldn’t choke to death.

“I’ve stood in a basement flooded by extreme rainfall hitting South Bend in just the way scientists have warned us about for decades. And I’ve carried a weapon in a foreign land on the orders of an American president. See, when Donald Trump and his sons were working on Season 7 of Celebrity Apprentice, I was driving and guarding convoys outside the wire in Afghanistan.


“I had a lot of different responsibilities, but the job that mattered most was to make sure the men and women in my vehicle got where they were going, alive. And when they got in my vehicle, they didn’t care if I was a Democrat or a Republican. They cared about whether I had selected the route with the fewest IED threats, not whether my immigrant father was documented or undocumented. They cared about whether my M-4 was locked and loaded and whether I knew how to use it, not whether I was going home to a girlfriend or a boyfriend. They just wanted to get home safe, like I did.” The full speech http://politi.co/2wSLr9n