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.
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