Among those traveling this summer is Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., who supported Pelosi in last year’s leadership vote but at 41 is among the caucus’s younger members. She recently went far outside her district in Queens to visit the Iowa State Fair.

Local Democrats picked her up at the airport, whisked her to the site of the famous butter cow and made sure she sampled such fair staples as a pork chop on a stick and fried Oreo cookies.

“I might come back for breakfast,” she joked as she posed for photos with a pork chop, “the food here is so good.”

Meng, who is a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is focusing much of her political travel on rural areas in a bid to better understand how to win back voters who have drifted away from her party. She said she feels the need to reach out because, “We don’t have the numbers, honestly, in the House and the Senate, in the White House.”

She said she’s not in Iowa because she wants to run for president — but other House Democrats are already running or clearly thinking about it.