Depending on the day, your Starting Line team had up to seven people on the ground to help cover the Iowa State Fair.
With that many people working and recording video, you’re bound to accumulate a lot of footage, especially on Saturday where multiple presidential candidates including Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Here are some of the sites and sounds your Starting Line team captured:
Asked by Reynolds about funny moments on the campaign trail, Larry Elder says one fan approached him in New York and invited Elder to his “establishment,” which turned out to be a strip club pic.twitter.com/qQBd4iohtK
— Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) August 10, 2023
.@GovTimWalz at Iowa State Fair: “You’re not going to hear us (Democrats) debating the values of slavery … We’re not interested in banning books, we’re interested in banishing hunger from our schools … That’s what coming out of the [Biden] administration.” pic.twitter.com/SdWNcxogW9
— Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) August 10, 2023
“Why did you commit treason on Jan. 6?” man asks Mike Pence at State Fair. Another man shouts the questioner down. Pence responds: pic.twitter.com/8ochbfyolu
— Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) August 10, 2023
“I’m gonna vote for the guy with the most impeachments, and most indictments, because that guy—he knows where all corruption is.” pic.twitter.com/LS39RjCQ2d
— Camaron (@thisiscamaron) August 10, 2023
“I’m glad they didn’t hang you,” one man says to Mike Pence as he passes by at the Iowa State Fair pic.twitter.com/DSUo3RIZyV
— Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) August 10, 2023
Pence heckler (a Trump supporter) confronted by a Republican voter pic.twitter.com/2et7cU4o3i
— Nikoel Hytrek (@n_hytrek) August 11, 2023
“We cut salaries — and then we cut pensions.”
Presidential candidate @FrancisSuarez reveals his plan to balance the budget: pay people less and make it harder for them to retire. pic.twitter.com/9BO9rkMTz8
— Camaron (@thisiscamaron) August 11, 2023
Seen from the #IowaStateFair ferris wheel: @realDonaldTrump arrives behind packed/overflowing Steer and Stein, waves to crowd, signs and tosses out hats. pic.twitter.com/Wyy7GmqlMx
— Amie Rivers (@amierrivers) August 12, 2023
And Trump is here pic.twitter.com/Ueethzll7e
— Ty Rushing (@Rushthewriter) August 12, 2023
Whistling disrupters at the DeSantis event with Reynolds. She told them to stop pic.twitter.com/GHmfr6pHie
— Nikoel Hytrek (@n_hytrek) August 12, 2023
Be likable, Ron! Banner is still flying pic.twitter.com/smT7ZqWkNP
— Nikoel Hytrek (@n_hytrek) August 12, 2023
Confrontation pic.twitter.com/OjYNfx6QXD
— Nikoel Hytrek (@n_hytrek) August 12, 2023
The DeSantis family and bumper cars pic.twitter.com/MVAcwQ2Dp7
— Nikoel Hytrek (@n_hytrek) August 12, 2023
Hayley reiterated a line from her stump speech about wanting term limits and mental competency tests for elected officials, but she noted that she knows Chuck Grassley would pass it.
Grassley is serving in his eighth term representing Iowa in the US Senate. https://t.co/S1UkGZLsae pic.twitter.com/gKZzt16Ink
— Ty Rushing (@Rushthewriter) August 12, 2023
Ron DeSantis, his kid and Joni Ernst try out the ball toss game pic.twitter.com/CGtDB0ijao
— Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) August 12, 2023
Donald Trump has arrived to the Iowa State Fair. First stop at pork producers, you can see his hand here lifting a pork chop on a stick into the air pic.twitter.com/T9HE9fmSyT
— Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) August 12, 2023
“You the man, Rick!” one passerby says to Ron DeSantis at the State Fair pic.twitter.com/PwLjjJMGYm
— Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) August 12, 2023
Very significantly larger crowd assembled to catch a glimpse of Trump at the Iowa State Fair than the one for DeSantis at Reynolds’ event earlier. And another, separate big group of Trump supporters waiting down at Steer N’ Stein pic.twitter.com/BvusPMDOVy
— Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) August 12, 2023
Trump close at Steer N Stein pic.twitter.com/IReDD0GqPW
— Ty Rushing (@Rushthewriter) August 12, 2023
by Team Starting Line
08/16/2023