Trump buzzes Hillary, gives kids helicopter rides at Iowa State Fair

She even brought a tour guide: former Sen.

Where Trump threw out the rulebook, Hillary Clinton followed it to the letter – spending more than an hour doing the kind of retail politicking she was faulted for skipping in her failed 2008 bid for the Democratic nomination.

After speaking to reporters behind the cattle barn where she talked to a boy with his cow, Clinton ducked into a display next to a food stand to talk with a supporter away from the glare of a dozen television cameras.

After landing by chopper in a nearby lot, Trump invited some children to take a ride in the helicopter and spoke to reporters before riding a golf cart to the entrance of the fair.

As Hillary Rodham Clinton walked among the booths of funnel cakes and corn dogs at the Iowa State Fair, trailed by a massive pack of media and onlookers, Donald Trump’s helicopter circled the fairgrounds in the air above. Though he is known for his aversion to shaking hands, he gamely pressed the flesh as a crush of fans tried to greet him.

The former senator and governor from Rhode Island says he discovered for himself that ex-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein didn’t have weapons of mass destruction by checking directly with the Central Intelligence Agency.

“I know that I speak for all of you that we are sick and exhausted of reading about and seeing videos of unarmed African-Americans being shot”, Sanders said Sunday at a Democratic picnic. He gave me that businessman look.

Trump “just doesn’t seem to get along with people as well as Ben Carson does”, said Alex Bennett, an 18-year-old soon-to-be freshman at Drake University in Des Moines who plans to support Carson in Iowa’s caucuses. Who does that sound like to you? People pushed aggressively to reach out to Trump.

Trump’s Iowa strategist, Chuck Laudner, told CNN that Trump is casting “a wide net” and has been turning people onto politics who have ignored previous elections. “Trump will do that”.

Clinton’s tour of the fairgrounds was a spectacle, but Trump’s raucous, roving mosh pit – featuring helicopter fly-overs – was on an entirely different level.

“He landed in a helicopter with his name on the side of it”, boasted Chuck Laudner, the veteran GOP operative running Trump’s Iowa campaign, as he walked along the midway on the edges of the mob surrounding Trump.

For the time being, she was more concerned about spending time with voters and making it to the pork chop stand.

He added: “We’re going to have a big door for people to come in legally”.

“We’re going to go back that way to find a spot to sit”, the aide replied.

Before wrapping up her visit, Clinton sampled a pork chop on a stick and a lemonade. “We’ll walk and eat”.

Clinton referred to Trump on Friday evening as the “flamboyant front-runner” in the Republican race. But she said she was hoping he would make an impromptu speech. “I was hoping to hear what he is most passionate about”. “But so far you have to say, hasn’t worked out badly, right?”

But like many voters here, she was intrigued, but not ready to commit: “He’s definitely a frontrunner”.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum tells voters at the Iowa State Fair that not only should Planned Parenthood no longer receive federal money, but also should be prosecuted under federal law.

“There’s Trump!” shouted one man.