Sen. Joni Ernst: Iowa State Fair Buzzes With Presidential Candidates

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

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Loaded with attractions such as bacon pecan pie on a stick, dairy cows, a tractor pull, and presidential candidates, the Iowa State Fair truly offers something for everyone. Over a million visitors are expected this year for the annual fair, which runs Aug. 10-20, so it’s a magnet for presidential hopefuls ahead of Iowa’s Republican presidential caucuses Jan. 15. Presidential candidates “know that this is a place that they need to come in order to socialize with the Iowa voter, answer very hard questions coming from those Iowa voters, and it really sets the stage as we ramp up towards those January caucuses,” Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, tells The Daily Signal. Voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina traditionally go first in casting their ballots during primary season, so it’s no surprise that politicians spend time in all three states. Iowan voters “hope that we can get our country back on track” following the Biden administration, Ernst says. “What we see with this president is a president who appeases our adversaries all around the globe,” Ernst says. “It’s a president who has focused so far left on green ideology and climate ideology that he’s hurting middle America. They just want to trample over the American people and do whatever he wants to do regardless of the consequences.” Iowa’s junior senator joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” from the State Fair to discuss the visiting GOP presidential candidates and the effects on voters of the four indictments of former President Donald Trump. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily's Little Podcast for Thursday, I'll get 17th, I'm Virginia Allen.
0:10.2	We are out of the studio today and in Iowa for the State Fair and it is my privilege to
0:15.6	be joined today by Senator Joni Ernst right here at the Fairgrounds.
0:19.3	You're going to hear a lot of noise in the background.
0:21.3	We got a truck pole going on, just a little ways down the street, folks enjoying lots
0:26.2	of great food.
0:27.2	Senator Ernst is the fair always this lively.
0:31.2	It is always like this Virginia, nothing compares to the Iowa State Fair.
0:36.8	That's the motto and people are out having a great time.
0:41.0	We've had record attendance this year at the Iowa State Fair.
0:44.9	I notice the other day and has probably even topped it since, but we had 118,000 plus
0:50.2	people in a single day at the Iowa State Fair, but we've got all these great presidential
0:56.9	schools coming through as well, which is really peaking a lot of people's interest.
1:01.6	It's this beautiful combination of folks enjoying the fun, enjoying the rides, eating a ton
1:07.0	of fried food, and then you have all of these candidates for president who are coming
1:11.0	through, who are sharing their message with the American people and how they will lead
1:15.0	from Washington, D.C.
1:17.2	What has been your take?
1:18.2	As we have seen so many candidates come through, what have you seen from Iowa and what's
1:22.3	their response to having all these candidates in their state?
1:25.7	Well, they love this and this is something that we go through every four years as we prepare
1:30.4	for the Iowa caucuses.
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