Rand Paul to visit Iowa in August; fried Twinkies ahead?
Jennifer Jacobs
6:55 p.m. CDT July 2, 2014
As promised, Republican Rand Paul is returning to the presidential testing grounds of Iowa in August.
The first confirmed event of Paul's upcoming trip is to speak at a special meeting of the Westside Conservative Club at 7:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, organizers told The Des Moines Register this afternoon.
He's tentatively scheduled to be here for three days.
Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky, has been building his Iowa network for months, telegraphing his interest in a 2016 presidential bid by connecting privately behind the scenes and publicly with voters in the lead-off voting state.
He was here last month, his third trip to Iowa this presidential cycle, to meet with U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst and to give a speech at the Republican Party of Iowa's state convention, where he noted that he'd be back in August for some fried Twinkies at the Iowa State Fair.
The fair starts Aug. 7. Paul was invited, but has not yet confirmed, for the Family Leader Summit, a gathering of Christian conservatives in Ames on Aug. 9.
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