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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump is headed to Iowa on Tuesday as part of the White House\u2019s midterm-year pivot toward affordability, even as his\u00a0administration remains mired in the fallout\u00a0in Minneapolis over a second fatal shooting by federal immigration officers this month.<\/p>\n
While in Iowa, the president will make a stop at a local business and then deliver a speech on affordability, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. The remarks will be at the Horizon Events Center in Clive, a suburb of Des Moines.<\/p>\n
The trip will also highlight energy policy, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said last week. It\u2019s part of the White House\u2019s strategy to have Trump travel out of Washington once a week ahead of the midterm elections to focus on affordability issues facing everyday Americans \u2014 an effort that keeps getting diverted by crisis.<\/p>\n
The latest comes as the Trump administration is grappling with the weekend shooting death of Alex Pretti, an\u00a0ICU nurse killed by federal agents\u00a0in the neighboring state of Minnesota. Even as some top administration officials moved quickly to malign Pretti, the White House said Monday that Trump was waiting until an investigation into the shooting was complete.<\/p>\n
Trump was last in Iowa ahead of the July 4 holiday to kick off the United States\u2019\u00a0upcoming 250th anniversary, which morphed largely into a celebration of his major spending and tax cut package hours after\u00a0Congress had approved\u00a0it.<\/p>\n
Republicans are hoping that Trump\u2019s visit to the state Tuesday draws focus back to that tax bill, which will be a key part of the GOP\u2019s pitch as they ask voters to keep them in power in November.<\/p>\n
\u201cI invited President Trump back to Iowa to highlight the real progress we\u2019ve made: delivering tax relief for working families, securing the border, and growing our economy,\u201d Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, said in a statement in advance of his trip. \u201cNow we\u2019ve got to keep that momentum going and pass my affordable housing bill, deliver for Iowa\u2019s energy producers, and bring down costs for working families.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s affordability tour has taken him to Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina as the White House tries to marshal the president\u2019s political power to appeal to voters in key swing states.<\/p>\n
But his penchant for going off-script has sometimes taken the focus off cost-of-living issues and his administration\u2019s plans for how to combat it. In Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, Trump insisted that inflation was no longer a problem and that Democrats were using the term affordability as a \u201choax\u201d to hurt him. At that same event, Trump also griped that immigrants arriving to the U.S. from\u00a0\u201cfilthy\u201d countries\u00a0got more attention than his pledges to fight inflation.<\/p>\n
Although it was a swing state just a little more than a decade ago, Iowa in recent years has been reliably Republican in national and statewide elections. Trump won Iowa by 13 percentage points in 2024.<\/p>\n
Still, two of Iowa\u2019s four congressional districts have been among the most competitive in the country and are expected to be again in this year\u2019s midterm elections. Trump already has endorsed Republican Reps. Nunn and Mariannette Miller-Meeks. Democrats, who landed three of Iowa’s four House seats in the 2018 midterm elections during Trump\u2019s first term, see a prime opportunity to unseat Iowa incumbents.<\/p>\n
This election will be the first since 1968 with open seats for both governor and U.S. senator at the top of the ticket after Republican Gov.\u00a0Kim Reynolds\u00a0and Republican U.S. Sen.\u00a0Joni Ernst\u00a0opted out of reelection bids. The political shakeups have rippled throughout the state, with Republican Reps. Randy Feenstra and Ashley Hinson seeking new offices for\u00a0governor\u00a0and\u00a0U.S. senator, respectively.<\/p>\n
Democrats hope\u00a0Rob Sand, the lone Democrat in statewide office who is running for governor, will make the entire state more competitive with his appeal to moderate and conservative voters and his $13 million in cash on hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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