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FILE - Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey, walk in the July 4th parade, July 4, 2023, in Merrimack, N.H. As the six month sprint to the Iowa caucuses begins, the sprawling field of Republican presidential candidates is facing growing pressure to prove they can become serious challengers to former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha, File)

GOP White House hopefuls face mounting pressure to stop Trump in Iowa

By Thomas Beaumont and Steve Peoples - Associated Press

Pastor Michael Shover of Christ the Redeemer Church in Pella, left, argues with Ryan Maher, of Des Moines, as protestors clashed in the Iowa State Capitol rotunda, while the Iowa Legislature convenes for special session to pass 6-week '"fetal heartbeat" abortion ban, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Des Moines Register via AP)

Iowa Republicans pass bill banning most abortions after about 6 weeks; governor to sign on Friday

By Hannah Fingerhut - Associated Press

FILE - Willard Miller is led into a courtroom, March 29, 2023, in Fairfield, Iowa, for a hearing related to the murder charge he faces in the 2021 death of Fairfield, Iowa, Spanish teacher Nohema Graber. Miller is one of two Iowa teenagers charged in the beating death of Graber. On Thursday, July 6, Miller will be the first sentenced after he pleaded guilty as part of an agreement in which prosecutors recommended a term of between 30 years and life in prison, with the possibility of parole. (Kyle Ocker/The Ottumwa Courier via AP, Pool, File)

Hearing underway for first of 2 Iowa teens who pleaded guilty in 2021 beating death of teacher

By Scott McFetridge - Associated Press

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, center, talks with local officials while touring the site of an apartment building collapse, Monday, June 5, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa. The six-story, 80-unit building partially collapsed May 28. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

New lawsuit filed after Iowa building collapse, governor asks White House for help

By Hannah Fingerhut - Associated Press

Former Vice President Mike Pence talks with local residents during a meet and greet on May 23, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

DeSantis, Pence and other GOP 2024 hopefuls, but not Trump, set to appear at Iowa rally

By Michelle L. Price, Hannah Fingerhut and Thomas Beaumonth - Associated Press

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center, poses for a photo with audience members during a fundraising picnic for Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, May 13, 2023, in Sioux Center, Iowa. DeSantis is kicking off his presidential campaign in Iowa at the start of a busy week that will take him to 12 cities in three states as he tests his pitch as the most formidable Republican challenger to former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall. File)

DeSantis kicks off presidential campaign in Iowa as he steps up criticism of Trump

By Thomas Beaumont - Associated Press

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the Heritage Foundation 50th Anniversary Celebration leadership summit, Friday, April 21, 2023, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Pro-DeSantis super PAC ramps up hiring into Super Tuesday

By Thomas Beaumont - Associated Press

FILE - Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the National Review Ideas Summit, Friday, March 31, 2023, in Washington. Ten Republican White House hopefuls will be speaking Saturday, April 22, at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual spring fundraiser that marks the unofficial launch of the 2024 Iowa caucus campaign. Former President Donald Trump, Pence and Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina are among the top declared and expected candidates set to speak at the event, though Trump will be appearing via video. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

2024 Republican hopefuls set to meet with Iowa evangelicals

By Thomas Beaumont and Michelle L. Price - Associated Press

Rev. Mike Demastus, of Des Moines, Iowa, left, and Rev. Bob Curry, of Johnston, Iowa, right, talk with State Rep. Eddie Andrews, center, Thursday, April 6, 2023, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump and Iowa evangelicals: A bond that is hard to break

By Thomas Beaumont - Associated Press

Missouri tornado kills multiple people, sows destruction

By Scott McFetridge and Sean Murphy - Associated Press

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., participates in his ceremonial swearing-in by Vice President Kamala Harris, in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 3, 2023. Scott is speaking at an event at Drake University on Wednesday, Feb. 22, as part of what aides call a national listening tour aimed at informing his plans, before addressing the annual Polk County Republican fundraiser in suburban Des Moines that evening. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Sen. Tim Scott speaks of ‘new American sunrise’ as he mulls 2024 White House bid

By Thomas Beaumont - Associated Press

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at the Knapp Center on the campus of Drake University, Jan. 30, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. Republican presidential prospects are streaming into Iowa, the leadoff presidential caucus state. Notably absent from the lineup, at least for now, is former President Donald Trump who carried the state twice, by healthy margins, as the Republican presidential nominee in the 2016 and 2020 elections. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Trump absent as Iowa 2024 GOP caucus train begins to roll

By Thomas Beaumont - Associated Press

Law enforcement officers enter the Starts Right Here building, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. Police say two students were killed and a teacher was injured in a shooting at the Des Moines school on the edge of the city's downtown. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Police: 2 students killed, man hurt in Des Moines shooting

By Scott McFetridge and Josh Funk - Associated Press

Becky Smith, Executive Director of Iowa Safe Schools, holds a transgender flag behind the signing ceremony for House File 2416, prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in female sports offered by Iowa schools, colleges and universities, on Thursday, March 3, 2022, in the rotunda of the Iowa State Capitol, in Des Moines. (Kelsey Kremer/The Des Moines Register via AP) **FILE**

Puberty blockers, preferred pronouns, cross-dressing banned by Diocese of Des Moines

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Pieper Lewis gives her allocution during a sentencing hearing on Sept. 13, 2022, in Des Moines, Iowa. Lewis, an 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who killed her rapist, was being held in an Iowa jail Wednesday, Nov. 9, and could face a prison term after she walked away last week from a Des Moines women’s shelter where she was serving probation for a manslaughter conviction. (Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Des Moines Register via AP, File)

Iowa teen who killed rapist being held in jail after escape

By David Pitt - Associated Press

GOP candidates soften tone on abortion for midterm election

By Thomas Beaumont - Associated Press

Protestors chant &quot;Let them go&quot; as Des Moines police vans arrive at the Polk County Jail after protestors were arrested outside the Capitol, in Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Two central Iowa police officers are suing a sitting Des Moines City Council member and five other people who participated in a racial justice protest in 2020, and are seeking an unspecified amount in damages in what experts say is a legal move rarely taken by police and other first responders. (Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Des Moines Register via AP)

2 Iowa officers sue 2020 protesters, accuse them of assault

By Margery A. Beck - Associated Press

Cynthia Rosenzweig, 2022 World Food Prize recipient, meets with the media at the Columbia University Climate School in New York City on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Rosenzweig is a senior research scientist and head of the Climate Impacts Group at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Columbia University Climate School. She won the prize because of her work modeling the impact of climate change on food production. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

NASA climate research scientist wins World Food Prize

By David Pitt - Associated Press

FILE - Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference Feb. 25, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. Former President Donald Trump's persistent flirtation with another White House run is doing little to discourage other potential Republican candidates from stepping up their activity in Iowa, the state that will formally launch the nomination process.(AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Iowa GOP open to non-Trump prospects as 2024 gets underway

By Thomas Beaumont - Associated Press

Iowa Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deidre DeJear, right, greets Rebecca Hoeppner, left, and Maddie Anderson, center, at the Story County Democrats Super Soup Fundraiser, Saturday, March 12, 2022, in Nevada, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Iowa’s political swing makes Obama’s wins harder to repeat

By Thomas Beaumont - Associated Press