Iowa Republican officials rally behind Trump at state GOP convention …

Gov. Kim Reynolds, Attorney General Brenna Bird and others at the state Republican convention on Saturday emphasized the need to defeat President Joe Biden in November and put former President Donald Trump back in the White House.

Republicans from across the state gathered at the Horizon Event Center in Clive for the state convention, where they chose delegates to send to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee July 15-18. It’s the final step in the presidential nominating process that began with the 2024 Iowa Republican caucuses.

Trump, the only major GOP presidential candidate remaining, secured an early and decisive win in the January Iowa Republican caucuses — the first-in-the-nation contest — where he beat his closest competitors Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley by a nearly 30-point margin.

While all the Republican elected and party officials at the state convention spoke in support of Trump, not all…