"Shortly after was when we started Coffee Bean Caucus, and that’s when it really picked up,” Seth Dudley, general manager of the Hamburg Inn, told FOX Business. SEN. ERNST HAS 'FULL SUPPORT' OF IOWA FARM BUREAU AFTER FAKE EMAIL SAYS OTHERWISEThe Coffee Bean Caucus is a straw poll where diners place a coffee bean into a mason jar that represents their preferred candidate. Trump, meanwhile, during the 2020 primary received 493 beans, or 91%, that were cast for a Republican candidate. Back in 2016, he became the first Republican since Reagan to carry more than 50% of the Iowa vote. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe Coffee Bean Caucus is “not necessarily a good indicator of how the whole state will go, but it's a good indicator of how Iowa City, Johnson County, and sometimes even eastern Iowa will go,” Dudley said.

Source: Fox News October 20, 2020 19:18 UTC