DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — White House speculation in overdrive, Hillary Rodham Clinton returns to Iowa to pay tribute to the state's retiring Democratic senator as anticipation builds over the possibility of another presidential campaign. Sunday's event is expected to draw more than 5,000 party activists who form the backbone of Iowa's presidential campaigns every four years. Following a summertime book tour, Clinton was making her biggest campaign splash in 2014 so far, opening a fall of fundraising and campaigning for Democrats who are trying to maintain a Senate majority during President Barack Obama's final two years. The event was serving as a farewell for Harkin, a liberal stalwart and former presidential candidate who is retiring after four decades in Congress. Anti-war activists opposed her vote to authorize the Iraq war in 2002 and coalesced around Obama, who had opposed the war as an Illinois state senator. The Clintons were attending a private reception for Harkin at Principal Park, the home of Des Moines' minor league baseball team, before traveling to the hot-air balloon field where the senator has held the fundraiser since the early 1990s.
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