DES MOINES, Iowa -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated Saturday that she did not send or receive emails marked classified from her homemade email server while secretary of state.
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Clinton told reporters at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday that she would let the inquiry into her email use continue, while she blamed her Republican challengers and House GOP members for turning the matter into a partisan affair.
"The facts are the same as they have been from the very beginning," she said.
Clinton recently turned her server over to the FBI to investigate the security of her email setup, which The Associated Press in March traced to an Internet connection at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y. Clinton later said she set up her own system -- rather than use a State Department account -- for the convenience of using one BlackBerry device.
As Clinton walked among the booths of funnel cakes and corn dogs at the fair, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's helicopter circled the fairgrounds in the air above.
Each drew large crowds as Clinton sampled a pork chop on a stick and Trump gave rides to children on his helicopter.
Trump has been criticized for not detailing his policy positions, but Saturday he said he would soon release a policy paper on immigration.
"You are going to love me in terms of immigration and illegal immigration," he said. "We're building a wall. Nobody is going through my wall. Trump builds walls, I build walls. We're building a wall. It's going to be strong, it's going to be solid, it's going to be policed."
The state fair typically draws around 90,000 people daily during its 11-day run every summer, giving presidential candidates an opportunity to meet potential supporters for Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses.
Both Trump and Clinton avoided getting up on The Des Moines Register's "soapbox," a place where candidates can deliver remarks and take questions from fairgoers. A candidate can be cheered or jeered, depending on the mood of the crowd and whether supporters or opponents are on hand.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who has become Clinton's chief rival and has drawn tens of thousands to his rallies, pitched his policies to counter economic inequality from the soapbox.
Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, another Democrat, told voters from the soapbox that the main justification for the Iraq War was "all a hoax." He also told the crowd Saturday he turned around his state's economy by slashing unemployment and investing in education.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a Republican candidate, told voters at the fair that not only should Planned Parenthood no longer receive federal money but it also should be prosecuted under federal law.
He assailed the group for performing what he called partial-birth abortions and for using fetal tissue for "research and other types of nefarious things."
The first candidate to visit the fair Thursday, the day it opened, was Mike Huckabee, who paid homage at the Iowa Pork Producers tent.
"Mmm," Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, said as he tasted grilled meat that was handed to him. "Being a Razorback fan, I guess it would be appropriate to say, go hogs."
Information for this article was contributed by Trip Gabriel of The New York Times.
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