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    Dozens Of Iowa Counties Flipped Red For Trump in 2016. Will They Stand By Him In 2020?

    In Iowa, 31 counties flipped from Obama to Trump in 2016, more than any other state. Maintaining those counties will be key to Trump's reelection bid.
    Oct 22, 2019 4 minutes
    Trump speaks to guests during a rally at the airport on January 30, 2016, in Dubuque, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

    Dan Smicker heads the Republican party in Clinton County, Iowa. He says three years ago lots of new faces came through the door of his office in downtown Clinton in the months before the 2016 election.

    "They wanted two things," he says. "They wanted a Trump yard sign and they wanted to know how to change their party affiliation."

    Nine out of 10 Iowa counties along the state’s eastern border flipped from blue to red in 2016. Statewide, Iowa has more counties than any other state that flipped from Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 to Donald Trump in 2016. Those counties helped Trump win Iowa, and

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