“The Iowa State Fair is something of a right of passage for presidential candidates, featuring plenty of “down-home” photo-ops, a chance to share a pork chop on a stick with voters, and a bit of practice fielding the inevitable hecklers”, The Christian Science Monitor reported Thursday.
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Harkin praised Clinton for “championing the needs of children” (he is the author of the American with Disabilities Act), as well as her policies toward heath, education and jobs. He said the Democratic race would be about a “new generational perspective”. This is not the Vietnam era. One such proposal by President Obama as a funding mechanism for Obamacare was voted down in 2009, attracting the opposition of 54 House Democrats. Biden is considering a 2016 campaign.
Mike Huckabee, (R) Presidential Candidate said, “Most candidates hide behind the walls of a nice cocktail party in Georgetown and they don’t rub shoulders with people who are standing out here sweating through the state fair”.
It would provide up to $1,500 per year to as many as one million student parents who achieve minimum grade levels and meet other requirements, the campaign said. The camp says the poll misrepresented voters there.
He says this military background has prepared him to be the Nation’s Commander-in-Chief.
A contestant holds a plate of tomatoes in the Agriculture Building durnig the Iowa State Fair on August 13, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa.
Harkin retired from the Senate this year after having a prominent presence for over 30 years.
Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chaffee also spoke, but as the evening drew to a close, many attendees were heading home and the response was largely polite.
Clinton and Trump are planning to visit the fair on Saturday.
Clinton also addressed the controversy surrounding her use of a personal email address on a private server during her tenure as secretary of state, joking with the friendly crowd that she likes the popular picture messaging app Snapchat: “All those messages disappear all by themselves”.
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Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks says the billionaire businessman may stop by the soapbox, but his schedule is in flux. The horse, cow, sheep, and pig tour guides have worked hard to unearth some of the best spots at the fair and they can not wait to tell you about them. “Trust me. It’s what’s for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack”. “And it’s important in a state like Iowa, where what gets people to turn out on caucus night is whether they’ve had a face-to-face interaction with the candidate”, said Annah Backstrom, the Des Moines Register’s content strategist for politics, who directs the Register’s political teams.
