Jason Noble

jnoble2@dmreg.com

Martin O’Malley is returning to Iowa this week to campaign for his former presidential rival, Hillary Clinton.

O’Malley, the former Maryland governor who finished a distant third in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses in February, will visit campaign offices in Des Moines on Thursday and Sioux City on Friday to campaign for Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee.

He’ll lead a phone bank at Iowa Democratic Party headquarters in Des Moines at 5 p.m. Thursday, followed by an “organizing event” at the Clinton campaign’s Sioux City field office at 12:30 p.m. on Friday.

O’Malley is traveling through Iowa this week on his way to a speaking gig at the South Dakota Democratic Party’s state convention, and previously announced an informal meet-and-greet with supporters and former campaign aides on Thursday in Des Moines.

Still, the appearances represent the Clinton campaign’s first general-election events in Iowa featuring a national surrogate.