Midterm Fight Over Trump Bill, Tariffs Starts Early at Iowa Fair

Republican Representative Zach Nunn is making an Iowa State Fair video about President Donald Trump’s tax law, shot on a John Deere tractor under the blazing August sun.

In it, Nunn, one of the nation’s most vulnerable incumbents, talks to constituent Sarah Curry about how the expanded child tax credit will help with the cost of one child’s speech therapy. Nunn is also planning to use the state fair as the backdrop for more videos selling the bill’s provisions temporarily cutting taxes on tips and overtime.

Representative Zach Nunn at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Aug. 13.

Photographer: Scott Morgan/Bloomberg

Economic issues — namely, Trump’s tax package and his tariff war with ...