For 2020 Democratic President candidates in Iowa?…Little mention of Trump…..

• The attendees at a soup dinner, meet-and-greets, and town halls asked hard-hitting questions about biofuels, money in politics, taxing the wealthy, preventive health care, arts in education, immigration reform, the environment, abolishing the filibuster rule in the Senate, and foreign policy.

Why it matters: Voters are giving the Democrats space to build specific brands based on their own visions and proposals.

• At least in the first caucus state, the most active Democrats don’t seem to be driven by personalities, polls or media portrayals.
• So the field isn’t a big anti-Trump chorus. It’s a collection of very different voices — with the real chance for one to break out by rising to the moment.

In a bright-blue, rented Hyundai Tucson, Axios traveled 264 miles and covered six events over three days.

• The crowds ranged from the 400+ people Sen. Kamala Harris drew at the state Capitol, to an eight-person roundtable Julián Castro held with corn growers in Paulina, Iowa.
• If people brought up Trump — which happened once at a Castro event and once at a Harris town hall — they simply asked: How are you going to beat him?

On health care, some of the questions were more revealing than the candidates’ answers, because they gave a glimpse into what’s really plaguing Americans…..

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