President Barack Obama will be returning to Iowa next week, his Iowa campaign staff has confirmed.

No further details were released, but speculation is that he will visit Newton on Thursday. The visit to Newton would be an official presidential visit, but the president is expected to have a campaign event in Des Moines, too.

Although she couldn’t confirm any other details, Iowa Obama for America spokeswoman Erin Seidler said the campaign is looking forward to Obama’s third visit to Iowa this year.

“We are excited President Obama is coming back to host a grassroots event in Iowa,” Seidler said. “In Iowa, we have seen firsthand the choice in November as the president is fighting for the middle class and growing an economy that is built to last and Mitt Romney, whose economic theories are based on outsourcing and tax breaks for the wealthy and biggest corporations that undercut middle class Iowans.”

The Republican National Committee called the visit another campaign trip funded by taxpayers who “continue to struggle with higher costs on gasoline, groceries, health care and tuition.”