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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump heads to southeast Iowa Sunday in the middle of a fall campaign push aimed at locking in supporters with large organizing events. As he has with his other recent travels to the leadoff caucus state, Trump will campaign in an area that formerly supported Democrats but has embraced him. Trump was planning to headline an afternoon event in Ottumwa, where his campaign was expecting more than 1,000 potential supporters. The small city is a hub in eastern Iowa and the seat of Wapello County, one of 31 counties Trump carried in 2016 that Democrat Barack Obama had won four years earlier. Trump, the first Republican to capture the county since the Eisenhower administration, campaigned the week before in northeast Iowa.
Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Barack Obama, Eisenhower, Democrat Joe Biden, Trump’s, Obama, Jonathan J, Cooper Organizations: DES, Trump, Republican, Democratic, Democrat, sparred, Associated Press Locations: DES MOINES, Iowa, Ottumwa, Wapello County, Jackson County, Mississippi, Dubuque County, Wapello, U.S, Canada, Mexico, California, Orange County, Southern California, Michigan, Macomb County , Michigan, Detroit, Macomb County, Anaheim , California
Ron DeSantis of Florida said that claims about the 2020 election being stolen were false, directly contradicting a central argument of former President Donald J. Trump and his supporters. The comments went further than Mr. DeSantis typically goes when asked about Mr. Trump’s defeat. In his response on Friday, Mr. DeSantis did not mention Mr. Trump by name — saying merely that such theories were “unsubstantiated.” But the implication was clear. The more aggressive response comes a day after Mr. Trump was arraigned on charges related to his plot to overturn the 2020 election. As he has courted Mr. Trump’s voters, Mr. DeSantis has blasted the prosecution as politically motivated and has said that he did not want to see Mr. Trump charged.
Persons: Ron DeSantis, Donald J, Trump, DeSantis, Trump’s, Mr Locations: Florida, Northeast Iowa
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