Thread by @EliStokols

Trump, in Dubuque, Ia.: "If Biden gets in, you can forget about ethanol, you can forget about everything."

Trump, self-annotating his scripted remarks again:

"No one has fought harder for the people of Iowa. That's true!"

Trump claims Biden's huge fundraising numbers, powered largely by online donors desperate to oust Trump, have come "by making deals," presenting it as if was a data point to support his unproven corruption allegations.

Trump's racist riff about Rep. Ilhan Omar is a feature of every rally. Every rally.

"EEL-hahn OH-mar...obviously she hates our country. She wants to tell us how to run our country. How the hell did she get elected?"

Also, cannot recall Trump name-checking a GOP elected official at a rally as much as he has today with Chuck Grassley: "What a piece of work that man is. I like that guy."

Of course, Joni Ernst is the one fighting for her political life.

Now, after calling up Sarah Sanders, Hope Hicks and Kim Reynolds, Trump calls Ernst on stage. And she makes her pitch -- for Trump.

"Iowa loves you. I love you. God bless you. Four more years!"

Now, Trump calls up former Gov. Terry Branstad, who'd been serving as Ambassador to China when he asked him to come back to help in Iowa.

Of course, Trump makes it sound like it was Branstad's idea: "He wanted to come back. He wanted to make sure we got reelected."

After Branstad concludes a string of speakers, Trump notes there are "a lot of good genes in this state."

Trump now on extended tangent about how he "rebuilt" the military, riffing about how Stealth bombers are great because "you can't see them" and says "our nuclear is tippy top."