President Donald Trump is heading to Iowa as the White House tries to focus on affordability ahead of the midterm elections despite fallout over the administration's immigration crackdown.

U.S. President Donald Trump rallied supporters in Iowa on Tuesday as he worked to shore up support in a Midwestern political battleground just south of Minnesota, where a confrontation ​was escalating over federal immigration agents' aggressive tactics.

The president’s early midterm travel points to a defensive strategy focused on boosting turnout in GOP-held seats with thin margins, starting in places he carried but Republicans barely did.

President Donald Trump returns to Iowa today in what is described as a shift to focus on the 40 weeks until November’s General Election. R The White House chief of staff has said Trump’s speech in the Des Moines suburb of Clive will mark the first of weekly campaign-related travel for the president.

President Donald Trump spent Tuesday in Iowa, underscoring his strong private sector meant less need for government hiring, while 900 miles away in Washington, senators were calling for him to put at least one government official’s job on the chopping block: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

The rally begins at the Horizon Events Center starting at 3 p.m. Tuesday.

The president takes his affordability message Tuesday to the state where turbine farms have helped keep electricity prices low.

Ahead of the President’s trip to Iowa, CNN News Central’s John Berman and Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten dig through the data on what voters are saying about Trump’s handling of the U.S. economy so far in his second term.