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Iowa stubborn

Good evening from West Des Moines, where voters aren't moving on from Donald Trump + Vivek Ramaswamy's Hoosier connections.

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Adam Wren
Jan 16, 2024
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It’s a mostly-Hoosier-less caucus night here amid sub-zero temperatures, and the only vestiges of Indiana to meet me here was the Des Moines visitor guide at my hotel, which featured a roundup of the city’s best fried pork tenderloins. And when I tried to go to Smitty’s, the legendary tenderloin shop that’s been around here since the 1960s, unplowed sid…

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