Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is looking to win friends and make a good impression in Iowa, a key presidential caucus state where he is scheduled this weekend to meet with union leaders, breakfast with firefighters and get to know Democratic party members.

Garcetti, who has aspirations to run for president in 2020, will be in Iowa, a state with a population of about 3 million people, on Friday and Saturday as part of a push by the Democratic party to support their candidates in the 2018 midterm elections.

The opinion of Iowans is seen as an early augur of a potential presidential candidate’s chances of being nominated by a political party.

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The Los Angeles mayor will visit the cities of Altoona, Des Moines, Waterloo and Davenport. Garcetti’s wife, Amy Elaine Wakeland, has relatives from Waterloo.

On his schedule Friday is a tour of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters’ training facility in Altoona. Then during a stop in Des Moine, he will give remarks to the Asian and Latino Coalition and attend a reception with One Iowa, an LGBT advocacy group.

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His Saturday schedule will start in Des Moines having breakfast with firefighters and law enforcement officials at Mullets restaurant, followed by a meet-and-greet at Cooney’s Tavern with the Polk County Democrats. In Waterloo, he will visit the Cedar Valley Tech Works campus with the city’s mayor, Quentin Hart, then take off to Davenport, where he is set to give a speech at the Scott County Democrats’ Red, White and Blue Dinner.