Republican President Donald Trump is set to arrive at the Iowa State Fairgrounds later tonight for a rally kicking off the one-year countdown to America's 250th birthday. Programming is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m., and Trump is scheduled to begin speaking at 7:30 p.m. July 3. The event will be held at the fairgrounds.

President Trump is visiting the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Thursday, where he will kick off celebrations for America’s 250th birthday. President Trump announced the visit in June, saying it will be “a unique opportunity for Americans to come together and celebrate the strength and rich values of our nation,

President Donald Trump will visit Des Moines on July 3 for an event to kick off what he’s touted as a year of celebrations culminating in the United States’s 250th birthday on July 4, 2026. The event,

It's a decision that surprised some political observers who had expected Bird to jump into the Republican primary to succeed Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Iowa Republican Attorney General Brenna Bird reportedly will not run for governor in 2026, The Des Moines Register reported. Bird told the newspaper in a statement she plans to run a "fierce re-election campaign" for attorney general and still has "more work to do.