Trump unveils new rally target

Feinstein focus of ‘Lock her up’ chants from president’s backers

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Chants of “Lock her up!” rang once again throughout an Iowa arena as President Donald Trump rallied supporters Tuesday night.

But this time, the staple of Trump’s 2016 campaign against Democrat Hillary Clinton had a new target: California Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Trump, who was in the state boosting Republican candidates ahead of the Nov. 6 midterm elections, said that Feinstein, the ranking Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had leaked a letter written by California professor Christine Blasey Ford alleging Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers.

Feinstein has denied her office was the source of the leak.

In a statement, Feinstein called Trump’s remarks “ridiculous and an embarrassment.”

The rally in Council Bluffs, across the Missouri river from Omaha, Nebraska, was Trump’s latest stop on a busy tour campaigning for Republican candidates in the leadup to midterms that will determine control of Congress.

Trump also rolled out new fuel standards that will be a boon for

Iowa and other farm states that have pushed for greater ethanol sales. The long-expected change will lift the federal ban on summer sales of gasoline with high-ethanol blends and allow them year-round. The EPA currently bans the high-ethanol blend, called E15, during the summer because of concerns that it contributes to smog on hot days. Ethanol industry advocates say that fear is unfounded.