Officials balked at his plans to give helicopter rides to children at the fair, so Trump is now expected to land outside the fairgrounds, speak with reporters and then make his way to the dairy sculpture that is the butter cow.
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Where Trump threw out the rulebook, Hillary Clinton followed it to the letter – spending more than an hour doing the kind of retail politicking she was faulted for skipping in her failed 2008 bid for the Democratic nomination.
Clinton, too, was encircled by a media horde and mobbed by fans. For what seemed like 20 minutes the fair came to a stand-still, with a long line of tractors, golf carts, and passersby unable to proceed down the main thoroughfare, as the crowd looking for a glimpse of the candidate froze the street.
The state fair typically draws around 90,000 people daily during its 11-day run every summer, giving presidential candidates the flawless opportunity to meet potential supporters for Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.
When he got around to politics, the presidential hopeful spoke about his experience in office, his plans to create jobs and his opposition to abortion.
Asked if she had seen the aircraft obviously buzzing above, Clinton demurred. “We had a little connection there, I felt”.
It’s his celebrity outsider appeal – he needs nothing, so he owes no favors – that’s been one explanation for Trump’s rise in the GOP polls.
But once up in the sky, William decided to capture his entire exchange with Donald Trump on a GoPro camera, which later appeared on YouTube.
Heather Kintzle, a 40-year-old administrative assistant from Cedar Rapids, went to the fair on Saturday to hear an impassioned talk about economic inequality from Sen.
But whether Gascoigne, Nelson or any of the other hundreds of people here swarming around Trump – or any of the other candidates on display for that matter – will actually caucus for them in February is an open question. And he says if people want to change it, they should vote for him. “Trump will do that”.
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump became added attractions Saturday for hordes of Iowans taking in the Americana spectacle that is the Iowa State Fair.
On Friday night, Clinton had made light of her email issues – noting that she had joined Snapchat and loved it because messages disappear within seconds.
Clinton’s use of a homemade server during her time as secretary of state has dogged her campaign. “I may have just made up a word”, she said.
Ms Clinton is adamant she never sent or received classified emails via her private email account. “So I’m going to let whatever this inquiry is go forward and will await the outcome of it”, Clinton said. They had pork on a stick – a pork chop on a stick.
Clinton began the morning with a press conference near a livestock corral, pausing with former Sen.
“We can get you a good amount of chops, how’s that sound?” the saleswoman told her.
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“It’s an important thing for candidates to do”, Tom Henderson, chairman of the Democratic Party in Iowa’s Polk County, told the Associated Press. “We’re going to straighten out this mess”, he called out to the crowd at one point.
