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The Guardian’s team is spread out across Iowa tonight to cover the caucuses, and Chris McGreal has this dispatch from Howard county in north-eastern Iowa:
Howard county, a mix of blue-collar workers and farmers, saw the largest swing of any county in the US from Obama to Trump in 2016 - by more than 40%.
But before that, it voted solidly for Bernie Sanders (by 54%) in the Democratic primary against Hillary Clinton that year. The chair of the county Democratic party, Laura Hubka, said that in both cases, the votes were kicking back against the ‘establishment candidate’ in Clinton.
A rancourous election foretold. Donald Trump Jr was heckled on Monday by a furious protester who accused his father of stoking antisemitic violence.
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