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Newsbuzz: Will Mike Pence Help Trump With Iowa Voters?

Gage Skidmore
Mike Pence speaking at CPAC 2015 in Washington, DC.

Donald Trump has picked Indiana Governor Mike Pence as a running mate. Will a Midwesterner help Trump win Iowa votes? Maybe. 

During this hour of River to River, host Ben Kieffer discusses Pence with Drake University's Dennis Goldford. Goldford is professor and chair of the political Science Department, and the Flansburg Fellow at the Harkin Institute. 

Also Jodi Lindley of the University of Iowa talks about a new policy to make the UI gender neutral in the classroom; Sergeant Brandon Bracelin of the Polk County Sheriff's Department explains a controversy on Twitter after a detention officer told a civilian not to call the police, and Des Moines Register reporter Timothy Meinch talks about a compromise between the city of Des Moines and taco truck owners. 

Lindsey Moon served as IPR's Senior Digital Producer - Music and the Executive Producer of IPR Studio One's All Access program. Moon started as a talk show producer with Iowa Public Radio in May of 2014. She came to IPR by way of Illinois Public Media, an NPR/PBS dual licensee in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and Wisconsin Public Radio, where she worked as a producer and a general assignment reporter.