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A brief swing through the farm state underscored administration fears about the midterms.
President Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd after speaking during an event at the Horizon Events Center in Clive, Iowa, Jan. 27, 2026. | Mark Schiefelbein/AP
President Donald Trump returned to Iowa on Tuesday to deliver the kind of speech his advisers have been pressing him to give — a sweeping economic victory lap, tailored to a farm-state audience and framed as the opening argument of a high-stakes midterm campaign.
And the president, for once, largely stuck to the script.
