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The Latest: 2016 hopefuls take turn on Iowa fair’s ‘soapbox’

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2011, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds a pork chop on a stick as he campaigns at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa. For those who would be president, a visit to the Iowa State Fair may be the purest distillation of the campaign experience in the state that starts the voting in the race for the White House. The 10-day event starts Aug. 13, 2015, and most of the 2016 hopefuls will pass through. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2011, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds a pork chop on a stick as he campaigns at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa. For those who would be president, a visit to the Iowa State Fair may be the purest distillation of the campaign experience in the state that starts the voting in the race for the White House. The 10-day event starts Aug. 13, 2015, and most of the 2016 hopefuls will pass through. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2011, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds a pork chop on a stick as he campaigns at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa. For those who would be president, a visit to the Iowa State Fair may be the purest distillation of the campaign experience in the state that starts the voting in the race for the White House. The 10-day event starts Aug. 13, 2015, and most of the 2016 hopefuls will pass through. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

By Associated Press 1 min read

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The latest on campaigning for president at the Iowa State Fair (all times local):

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10 a.m.

The Iowa State Fair is underway, and that means presidential hopefuls are about to step onto the “soapbox.”

Greeting voters and snacking on fried foods at the fair is all but a requirement for presidential candidates, and most of the two dozen or so in the race are expected to stop by during the 11-day affair.