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One Trump support at the state fair, Peri Halma, a teacher who has family members in the farming industry who she said are \"affected,\" still said of Trump, \"I think he's doing a great job. I think he's doing real well. I just love his go-get-him attitude.\"

She added, \"I think he tweets too much and says too much sometimes. I also think a lot of it is misconstrued ... Democrats are looking just to cause trouble and put blame on other people.\"

On Saturday, attendees will hear from Harris, Warren, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and six other candidates on the busiest day at the soapbox, before being treated to a moderate-progressive back-to-back between Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and Sanders on Sunday. Sunday also will feature the fair's lone Republican candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld.

Away from the soapbox, almost all of the candidates have announced they'll spend time touring the fair -- one of the preeminent retail politicking opportunities of the year, where sleeves are rolled up, corn dogs and turkey legs are sampled and midway games are played. Past years have found candidates like Barack Obama riding bumper cars, Donald Trump offering helicopter rides, John Kasich eating pork chops and Jeb Bush trying his hand at a speed-pitch contest.

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But the State Fair can also bring fallout: in 2011, former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney said \"corporations are people, my friend\" amid a testy back-and-forth with hecklers. Democrats seized on that one-liner, aiming to paint the former Massachusetts governor as an out-of-touch businessman in the 2012 race.

The next big spotlight for the candidates will be in mid-September, when the third Democratic primary debates, hosted by ABC News in partnership with Univision, will be held in Houston. So far, only eight candidates have qualified for the debate, according to an ABC News analysis of polling and grassroots donors.

The third debate comes at a critical nexus -- winnowing the field down to only viable campaigns that are built to last, while others likely will exhaust their resources in the six-week buildup to the debate.

ABC News' Molly Nagle, Benjamin Siegel and John Verhovek contributed to this report from Des Moines, Iowa.

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