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Candidates greet Iowans at the fair

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“I know how the system works better than anybody”, he said, talking about lobbyists’ grip on Washington. Sanders laughed and obliged. A good CEO hires people who are smarter than him to make him look good. We had Bernie Sanders. “Thank you”, he replied.

The state fair typically draws around 90,000 people daily during its 11-day run every summer, giving presidential candidates the ideal opportunity to meet potential supporters for Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.

“The Iraqis want our help”, Bush said. He also underscored his Democratic bona fides when he pressed for climate change and marriage equality legislation while he served in the Senate.

VIGELAND: All right. That was Hillary Clinton today at the State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa.

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)There are a few golden rules when it comes to campaigning in Iowa: never arrive by helicopter, leave your entourage at home and don’t skip the Des Moines Register soapbox, even if you have to courageous hecklers.

The difference, he said, is that Trump has the resources to take the same conservative message of a candidate like Santorum and actually produce results.

Trump says we’ve spent 2 trillion dollars, lost thousands of lives, had wounded warriors…

“Yeah, I want one on a stick though”, Clinton said.

And at the state fair, Trump’s Iowa staff took turns at the Iowa Republican Party booth and stomped through the fairgrounds with pledge cards in hand.

“Nice to be here!” She arrived here with former senator Tom Harkin. Nearly immediately Trump was crushed by massive crowds seeking photos, handshakes and yelling encouragement.

In the Agriculture Building, Clinton walked past plates of carrots, beets and large cabbages and peered at a pair of the fair’s famous butter statues – a cow and a tribute to the board game Monopoly.

Clinton sampled a pork chop on a stick and a lemonade.

Sanders will speak from an open-air stage known as the Soapbox, a tradition at the fair, but Clinton and Trump will not. But Trump did interviews with reporters as he made his way through the fair, hammering Clinton as untrustworthy and predicting that the controversy over her emails would become a “serious problem” that would ultimately cause her to withdraw from the race.

This time around, Laudner is running Donald Trump’s Iowa campaign. She blamed her Republican challengers and GOP House members on Saturday for turning the affair into a partisan issue.

A Republican debate last week confirmed the disruptive power of business magnate Donald Trump, and the long-presumed probable Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, is feeling the heat from enormous crowds drawn to Sen. So far he has not released any specific policy proposals.

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The Iowa State Fair won’t allow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to give kids free rides on his helicopter on fairgrounds, but the real estate developer has secured a nearby location. Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, another Democrat, told voters from the soapbox that the main justification for the Iraq War was “all a hoax”.

Not feeling it As Martin O'Malley who has the support of only one percent of his party took the stage tonight at the Surf Ballroom attendees of a Democratic fundraiser began heading toward the exits