by John McCormick
DES MOINES — Pledging to “give ’em hell,” former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards rallied several hundred supporters, his voice cracking at times from his near yelling, before the group headed together to the Jefferson Jackson dinner just a couple blocks away.
“I have been fighting this fight my entire life,” he said. “I have walked into courtrooms for two decades by myself with an army of corporate lawyers arrayed on the other side. I didn’t just walk into that courtroom again and again and again for children and families. I walked in that courtroom and I beat them and I beat them and I beat them and I beat them and I will beat them as president as the United States of America.”
Edwards said he and his wife, Elizabeth, who is not here this evening, have “committed our lives to this fight and we are in it with our heart and soul.”