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Iowa Farmers Stick With Trump Despite Trade War

President’s trade battle with China has hit Farm Belt hard, but not his support in heavily rural area

The Chinese technology company Huawei and agriculture are key issues in U.S.-China trade negotiations. Both may help President Trump achieve another goal at home. Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
By
John McCormick and
Jesse Naranjo

DES MOINES, Iowa—As President Trump maps out his re-election bid, farmers in this battleground state are backing him even with the U.S. Farm Belt bracing for deeper pain from his trade fight with China.

In and around the livestock barns, agriculture building and an antique-tractor collection at the Iowa State Fair in recent days, farmers almost universally expressed support for the president and pledged to vote for him in 2020.

“He’s...