Hillary Clinton to head back to Iowa

Hillary Clinton will head back to the Hawkeye State for the fourth time since she jumped into the 2016 presidential race, her campaign announced on Friday.

She’ll speak at an organizing event at the Iowa City Public Library on July 7, followed by an event at a private home in Ottumwa, a southern city in Wapello County.

{mosads}Back in 2008, 43 percent of the county’s 3,100 Democratic caucus-goers sided with former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.), while 32 percent backed Clinton and 24 chose then-Sen. Obama.

Clinton has spent most of her almost three months on the campaign in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. With this visit, she’ll have visited Iowa more than any other state during the campaign.

Both her main Democratic foes, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Gov. Martin O’Malley (Md.), are in Iowa for campaign events on Friday. She currently holds a strong lead in recent Hawkeye State polling, but that lead has slipped as of late.

A new Quinnipiac poll released Thursday showed Clinton with 52 percent and Sanders with 33 percent, a 19-point lead. That’s down from a 45-point lead in a Quinnipiac poll from May.