Trump is returning to Iowa on Sunday for his eighth campaign stop in little more than a month
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Donald Trump will headline his eighth campaign event in Iowa in a little more than a month on Sunday as part of the former president's accelerated fall schedule leading up to the first-in-the-nation caucuses in January.
Donald Trump will headline his eighth campaign event in Iowa in a little more than a month on Sunday as part of the former president's accelerated fall schedule leading up to the first-in-the-nation caucuses in January.
Trump's planned speech at the historic Orpheum Theater in downtown Sioux City, in GOP-heavy western Iowa, follows events Monday in New Hampshire and Saturday in Nevada. The Republican's campaign has long tried to show its dominance over his rivals with big early-state victories.
The stop also comes after he was fined $10,000 by the judge in his New York civil fraud trial for violating an order prohibiting him from verbally attacking court personnel.
Son Donald Trump Jr. was in West Des Moines at the campaign's state headquarters Thursday, where he applauded about 50 volunteers who were attending a caucus training session. The training was part of what Trump's team has promised will be a more disciplined effort in Iowa than in 2016, when he finished second to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
After his visit, Trump Jr. told reporters that the list of legal cases facing the former president will ultimately boosts his political cause.
"I think a lot of this stuff helps," the younger Trump said. "If it was one thing that they picked and that they focused on, maybe there would be some merit. But the deluge ... it just seems rather extreme."
The former president has drawn roughly 14,000 people to events in eastern and central Iowa since late September, while other candidates in the 2024 race have competed for much smaller audiences as they try to emerge as the most viable alternative.
