Not willing to let his Republican presidential rivals have all the fun in Iowa, President Obama is planning his own visits to a pair of towns there next week.
The stops are part of Obama’s three-day Midwest bus trip to talk with the public about the struggling economy, according to the White House, which released new details of the trip Friday.
On Monday, Obama will answer questions at town hall-style events at Lower Hannah’s Bend Park in Cannon Falls, Minn., and in Decorah, Iowa.
On Tuesday, he will play host to a rural economic forum at the Northeastern Iowa Area Community College in Peosta, Iowa.
And on Wednesday, the president will hold two more town hall events in the western Illinois towns of Atkinson and Alpha.
Following so closely on the heels of the Republicans’ debate in Ames on Thursday, Obama’s bus tour has campaign undertones. But he arranged the trip through the White House, not his 2012 campaign operations. Deputy White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Friday that the president sees such road trips as part of his official duties.
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