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Trump Iowa Visits

rationale, methodology and limitations  | this page updated on July 3, 2015

Through 2nd Quarter 2015
Iowa: 9 visits, 12 days
2015
>Donald Trump visited Iowa on June 27, 2015.  He plans to hold a Make America Great Again rally and family picnic at City Square Park in Oskaloosa;on June 23 deputy state director Ryan Keller announced the event is being rescheduled to July 25 due to the "massive amount of RSVPs." In the evening he did two events with Madison County Republicans in Winterset: a meet and greet at the John Wayne Museum; and a speech following the Roundup BBQ dinner at Winterset High School.

>Donald Trump did his Iowa announcement event at the Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines on the evening of June 16, 2015.

>Donald Trump visited Iowa on June 4, 2015.  He spoke at a benefit luncheon for the Coralville Veteran's Memorial Fund at Brown Deer Golf Course Ballroom in Coralville; and in the early evening did an event at Music Man Square in Mason City.

>Donald Trump visited Iowa on May 15-16, 2015.  (On the afternoon of May 15 he did a business roundtable at the Omaha Press Club).  On the evening of May 15 he did the keynote address at the Pottawattamie County GOP's Lincoln Reagan Dinner in the student center at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs.  On May 16 he spoke on "Make America Great Again!" in the Olsen Student Center at Morningside College in Sioux City<;span>; spoke at the Iowa National Security Action Summit at Point of Grace Church in ; and in the evening spoke at the Republican Party of Iowa's Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines.

>Donald Trump visited Iowa on April 29-30, 2015.  On the morning of April 29 he spoke to students and took questions in Neumann Auditorium at Wartburg College in Waverly; and late in the day he attended a fundraising reception for Secretary of State Paul Pate at Cedar Rapids Country Club in Cedar Rapids.  On the morning of April 30 he headlined a Scott County Republican Lincoln Club briefing and fundraising breakfast at the Radisson Hotel in Davenport.

>Donald Trump visited Iowa on April 8, 2015.  At Des Moines International Airport in Des Moines he showed off his Boeing 757 to the media; he spoke about education and his business experience at Simpson College in Indianola; met with Republican lawmakers at the State Capitol in Des Moinse; and in the evening he attended a house party/meet and greet for the Republican Party of Polk County at state Rep. Jack Whitver's home in Ankeny.   (Note: a Trump advisory said he was also to meet with Warren County Republican leaders at some point).

>Donald Trump had been scheduled to do a video for the Iowa Agriculture Summit at a reception on March 6, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa. 

>Donald Trump visited Iowa on January 23-24, 2015.  On January 23 Trump spoke at the Land Investment Expo in West Des Moines (>); and per the Des Moines Register attended a private dinner hosted by Peoples Company at the Stine Barn in West Des Moines.  On January 24 he spoke at the Iowa Freedom Summit in Des Moines.

2014
>Donald Trump visited West Des Moines, Iowa on October 18, 2014.  He and Congressman Steve King held a press conference at Concordia Group LLC's office; and they then appeared at a Steve King for Congress fundraiser at the residence of George Cataldo.

2013
>Donald Trump spoke at The FAMiLY Leadership Summit at Stephens Auditorium in Ames, Iowa on August 10, 2013.  He spoke with reporters afterwards, but did no other events, flying in and out.


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