There was also a college-football game.
The event itself was highly anticipated, as is normal for the Iowa-Iowa State game.
But this year’s matchup also featured a bitter head-to-head clash of a political kind that started even before kickoff occurred.
Ron DeSantis of Florida, the front-runners in the Republican primary, both appeared at the game: Mr. Trump, in a private suite, and Mr. DeSantis, in the stands alongside the state’s popular governor, Kim Reynolds.
It was the first time the two were at the same event since the Iowa State Fair, at which Mr. Trump and his supporters taunted Mr. DeSantis, who was heckled and cursed at as he strolled the fairgrounds with his family.
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