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9 v, v& n: n: O" g$ n SIOUX CITY, Iowa  AP  鈥?Ron DeSantis begins his first full day of presidential campaigning on Wednesday with a four-stop blitz through Iowa, trying to prioritize personally connecting with voters while proving he has the mettle to take on former President Donald Trump.The Florida governor has appearances in Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Pella and Cedar Rapids, packing in early events in the state whose caucuses kick off the GOP pres vaso stanley idential primary voting. From there, he will head to New Hampshire on Thursday and South Carolina on Friday.At his Iowa kickoff event on Tuesday night with wife Casey, DeSantis was initially cautious while addressing an energetic crowd of roughly 500 gathered inside a suburban Des Moines church. But speaking to reporters afterward, he pushed back against Trump in a way he had not before on the natio stanley uk nal stage.He accused Trump of essentially abandoning  America First  principles on immigration, supporting pandemic-related lockdowns and generally having  moved left  on key issues.And DeSantis laughed off any criticism the former president had lobbed his way over his leadership in Florida, particularly on the state s response to COVID-19. Hell, his whole family moved to Florida under my governorship. Are you kidding me   DeSantis said.DeSantis  comme stanley us nts came a week after a stumbling Twitter announcement that raised questions about his readiness for a national campaign. Beyond the glitchy launch, DeSantis opens his campaign looking up at Trump in the poll Mthu College baseball coach, wife and daughter killed in helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant
On the last trading day of August, the Dow and the broader stock market logged their second-worst month of t stanley nz his year. Stocks finished mixed Friday, giving up gains after opening higher.The Dow closed up 41 points, or 0.2% higher. For the month, the index is down 1.7%. The SP 500 and the Nasdaq Composite are down 0.1% and 0.5%, respectively.Still, the Dow and the SP are on track to log their best weekly gains since early June, and it is shaping up to be the best week in 10 for the Nasdaq.Optimism that trade tensions between the United States and China might ease also helped the market move higher this week.The key for the market will be if the gains can last through September.Stocks logged their second worst  stanley becher month of this year 鈥?only May was worse. The Dow slipped 1.7%, while the SP was down 1.8%. The Nasdaq shed 2.6%, according to Refinitiv.May and August have been the only negative months for stocks in 2019.August is typically considered  kubki stanley a quiet month for the market, but this hasn t held true of late.Trade tariffs, retaliation, harsh rhetoric and recession warnings flashing from the bond market were issues that dominated the market this month.President Donald Trump threatened an additional 10% of tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese imports on the first trading day in August, which led the                             Dow to its biggest intraday swing of the year                        . These tariffs will also hit consumer items like