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It s stage any minute and a lot of people here are waiting for that. and popular on twitter and she can draw a crowd in the northeast. out there in the middle of the country in iowa, hawkeye country, more of a draw or a deterrent? reporter: a little bit of both. you see here. this is a, an example she is a draw. tell you that before this event there were about 25 protesters outside. with the trump campaign. with the republican party. there was a billboard, a truck with a billboard, video screen saying that the squad was going to cost jobs. they were against the green new deal calling them socialists. i spoke to one of the protesters who were concerned. about knowledged climate change san issue. a guy with a big make america great again. actually, keep america great. it has impacted the state. his concern was the amount of spending in these plans. he says the spending is something that would be too much ....
He inherited everything else in his life. reporter: it s hardly a duel at high noon, but president trump and joe biden are both heading so iowa today, bringing their long distance feud into closer range. it is the president s first trip of the year to a state heavily inundated with democratic presidential candidates. he s not only watching that race closely, but he is working to influence it. have a choice between slippy joe and crazy bernie. i ll take any of them. let s pick somebody, please, and let s start this thing. reporter: for biden, it is his second visit to iowa since launching his candidacy. it is good to be back in hawkeye country. reporter: he s like nothing more than to focus on trump, trying to prove his own electability. he is facing a competitive democratic primary, as he tries to prove he is the front runner in the race. his first stop is home to one of 32 counties in the state that voted for he and barack obama in 2012 before flipping to trump in 2016. iowa ....