DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Sherrod Brown's first trip to Iowa as a presidential prospect could feel a lot like home for the Ohio senator.
The three-term swing-state senator is visiting places like his home state, where working class voters helped elect Donald Trump in 2016 but re-elected Brown handily last year.
Brown's first stop in the leadoff caucus state Thursday is Cresco, in the one county in the nation both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Donald Trump won by at least 20 percentage points.
Brown, beginning his third Senate term, is testing a message aimed at reaching working-class voters who also lifted Trump to victory in 2016 in swing states Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
During more than 25 years in Congress, Brown has pro-union policies and liberal causes such as abortion rights.