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Chris McGreal in Cresco, Iowa

‘These people are diehard’: Iowa Trump supporters shrug off indictments

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Donald Trump speaks at the Iowa Republican Party's 2023 Lincoln Dinner on 28 July. Photograph: Brian Cahn/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

From his corner of rural Iowa, Neil Shaffer did more than his fair share to put Donald Trump in the White House and to try to keep him there.

Shaffer oversaw the biggest swing of any county in the US from Barack Obama to Trump in 2016, and increased the then president’s share of the vote four years later. But the chair of the Howard county Republican party is not enthusiastic at the prospect of yet another Trump presidential campaign, and he blames the Democrats for driving it.

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