What does he focus on so early in the race? Right now, his number one goal is to help other Democrats in the upcoming Nov. 6 election.

“Nothing’s more important at this moment in time than the midterms,” Delaney said. “There’s nothing I could be doing that’s more important than helping candidates as much as I can.”

The candidate has been all over Iowa this week. Sunday he stopped in Fort Dodge to knock on doors with Megan Srinivas, who is running for Iowa House–although road construction delays and unexpected events meant he wasn’t able to stay.

Srinivas is one of the candidates Delaney has endorsed.

“I’ve endorsed about 95 candidates this cycle,” Delaney said. “I’m supporting them as much as I can financially. I think we’ve given over $800,000 to candidates this cycle, $250,000 here in Iowa.”

The two most important things in the presidential race right now are healing division, and getting someone to Washington who will be able to get things done, he said.

“When I knock on doors, those are the things I hear. Why can’t Washington work for us to get things done? Why do they have to fight all the time?” Delaney said.

“How do we take this terribly divided and fractured nation and start bringing it back together? I think that’s the most important issue facing this country,” he said.

“The second thing is we have to start getting things done. … The American people want solutions; they don’t want gridlock. They want us to return to a sense of principled compromise, where we try to work with the other side and get things done.”

President Donald Trump has also filed for reelection far earlier than is usual in U.S. politics, officially filing on the day he was inaugurated in January 2017.