President Mike Pence was in Iowa on Thursday for the rollout of the “Farmers and Ranchers for Trump Coalition,” noting that biofuel policy is an area the administration has delivered. Pence said President Donald Trump had promised to expand ethanol markets and “that's just what we've done,” noting the expansion of the use of E15 year-round.
Biden campaign spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield said Pence came to Iowa “to change the narrative on the Trump administration's disastrous coronavirus response, and to distract from their record of double-crossing the ethanol industry and pursuing an erratic, costly trade policy that puts American workers on the losing side of the equation.”
Pence also mentioned the derecho storm in the stop. He pledged that help was coming, but did not mention any specific federal relief that may be headed Iowa's way.
“On behalf of the President of the United States and our administration I want Iowans to know we are with you. We are going to stay with you and we will work with your governor and your senators to make sure that we bring Iowa all the way back, bigger and stronger than ever before,” Pence said, to cheers. “I promise.”
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