The next presidential election won’t happen for another two years, but one candidate has already declared his candidacy and visited Indianola.

Congressman John Delaney of Maryland announced he was making his bid for the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in July of 2017, and tells KNIA News he has visited all 99 Iowa Counties over the past year and is continually surprised how informed the electorate is about looking towards the future.

“The fact that technology, automation, and artificial intelligence are going to have a profoundly disruptive effect on our workforce and how do we think about that, those are the things that are being talked about. And so when you come to Iowa and you can sit down with 20-25 different Iowans and one of the first questions brought up is universal basic income, so I think it’s great.”

Delaney also said traveling around Iowa has given him a new perspective of just how much the country has changed over just the last several years. The Iowa Caucuses will take place on February 3rd of 2020.