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campaign for you.
>> All right. David Crowley,

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thanks for your time.
>> Thank you so much. Thank

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you for having me.
>> Another of the total of

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seven Democrats running for
governor, State Senator

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Kelda Roys tells us about
her experience and

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candidacy in this interview
with Zac Schultz.

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>> Kelda. Roys, thanks for
joining us.

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Zach.
elevator pitch, introduce

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yourself and say, why are
you running for governor?

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>> I'm running for governor
because Wisconsin needs

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higher wages, lower costs
and more freedom. We face a

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huge threat from the Trump
administration, and we need

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a governor who is willing
to stand up to the bullies

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and billionaires and fight
to protect Wisconsinites

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same time, we also have an
incredible opportunity to

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actually elect a governor
who is able to govern and

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pass laws with a new,
fairer legislature.

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>> Is there a single issue
that drives you, or perhaps

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a lane within the
Democratic Party that may

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define you?
>> I think it's all about

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making it possible for
working people to have the

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freedom to thrive in this
have seen their wages

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stagnate or even go down.
Meanwhile, the cost of

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living are skyrocketing.
Everything from housing to

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healthcare, childcare and
utilities is going up. We

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have to make Wisconsin a
place where people can

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afford to live and have a
good life.

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need to raise to be
competitive and win this

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primary? And will that
leave any room for the

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general election after that?
>> Yeah, I'm very confident

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that we're going to have a
good pot of money that's

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been raised by the
Democratic Party and

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national partners for
whomever our nominee is. I

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think the primary, it
depends on who all is

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running, but I'm confident
I'm going to have the

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resources needed to run a
strong campaign and prevail.

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>> When it comes to a
competitive primary, you're

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no stranger to those.
your view, between negative

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campaigning against a
versus defining differences

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between candidates?
>> Well, I think primaries

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are really important
opportunity for voters to

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vet the candidates and see
what their experience is,

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see how they perform under
pressure. There's going to

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be a huge spotlight on
Wisconsin. This is an

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incredibly important high
stakes race in one of the

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most pivotal states in the
country. And it is

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essential that we have a
governor who not only is

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able to stand up to the
Trump administration when

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needed, but also capable of
actually making the change

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that we need in this narrow
window of opportunity that

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we're going to have.
>> When primary voters are

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looking at these candidates,
should they be thinking in

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terms of which issue they
most closely relate to, a

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candidate or simply
electability?

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>> Well, I think each voter
is going to decide for him

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or herself what matters.
And I ask everyone in

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Wisconsin for your vote on
August 11th and November

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3rd. But I really want to
make the argument that

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whatever the issue that you
care about is, the most

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important thing is having a
governor who can win and

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who can actually get things
done. I have spent over 20

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years working in and around
state government in a

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variety of capacities as a
legislator in the Senate

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and the Assembly, as the
only candidate running that

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served on the Joint Finance
Committee, small business

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owner, mom, attorney and I
have been able to get

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meaningful legislation
passed on a whole variety

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of issues through every
split. Those skills are

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going to be essential for
our next governor. If we

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want to actually make
change in this state.

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>> All of the Democrats
running for office have

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connections either to
Madison or Milwaukee. What

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is your job in terms of
introducing yourself to the

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rest of the state,
especially rural Wisconsin,

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that may not recognize your
name?

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spent my career traveling
around the state and

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building relationships and
trying to build democratic

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power. And I'm actually
from Taylor County. I was

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born in Marshfield, grew up
in a one room schoolhouse

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in rural Taylor County,
north of highway 29. I'm

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the only candidate that had
a pet goat as a child, and

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so it's been really fun for
me to travel around the

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state, areas where I have
deep family roots or other

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connections that I've built
throughout my career,

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reconnect with people and
meet new people, and the

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reception has been really
strong.

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impact of Donald Trump will
be on this election?

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>> I think that people in
Wisconsin are feeling angry

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and hopeless about the
economic situation, the

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chaos and the corruption
that we are seeing by this

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administration is
unprecedented, and we're

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also seeing him shredding
our Constitution and the

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and as a patriotic American,
I think that what Trump is

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doing is totally
unacceptable, and we need

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to have strong governors
who are willing to stand up

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and hold him accountable,
you know, private

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paramilitary force that
he's building with ICE. We

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can have secure borders
without violating people's

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rights and destroying the
rights and destroying the