Iowa's sparsely populated northwest is a key GOP caucus...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Last week, Trump was in Sioux Center, the seat of Sioux County, where he won 82% of the vote in 2020.
50% : Trump had scheduled two rallies this weekend in the region before canceling due to winter weather.
47% : "Speaking for my parishioners, a lot of them look back at Trump and say, among recent presidents, he´s done more for the pro-life cause," said the Rev. John Vermeer of Rock Rapids, among the many clergy in the region who are part of the conservative Reformed Church brought to the area with settlers from the Netherlands more than 150 years ago.
46% : While doing fewer events in Iowa than his rivals, Trump has far from ignored the the swath, though he has spent more time in eastern Iowa's larger cities.
35% : The parlor is a common stop for Republicans when campaigning in northwest Iowa, where social conservatives carry outsize influence in Iowa's Republican caucuses and where DeSantis and Trump are competing aggressively for evangelical conservatives.
35% : The parlor is a common stop for Republicans when campaigning in northwest Iowa, where social conservatives carry outsize influence in Iowa's Republican caucuses and where DeSantis and Trump are competing aggressively for evangelical conservatives.
31% : The long-sought goal by abortion opponents is a common point among Trump supporters who acknowledge that his three marriages, for instance, make him an unconventional choice for devout Christians.
28% : Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, with his social conservative brand, competed strongly for northwest Iowa in 2016 and edged Trump in the region on his way to a narrow caucus victory.
25% : Randy Vande Berg, who came to see DeSantis in Rock Rapids, credited Trump for nominating the U.S. Supreme Court justices who helped overturn the landmark abortion-rights case Roe v. Wade in 2022.
22% : "DeSantis and Trump promote lists of politically influential northwest Iowa pastors backing them, though some voters around here who would vote for Trump in an instant in a general election were disappointed in his comments blaming Republican underperformance in the 2022 midterm elections on GOP candidates with strict anti-abortion positions.
21% : Trump has criticized a six-week ban as too strict and opposes a national abortion ban, arguing it would hurt Republicans politically.
21% : Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has been across the region as well, though appears to have sparked less of a following than DeSantis or Trump.

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