Bill Clinton to rally for Hillary in Iowa

Bill Clinton will join Hillary Clinton in Iowa on Saturday ahead of the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, one of the major campaign events of the Iowa caucuses season.

The former president will attend a Clinton campaign rally in downtown Des Moines before the dinner, appearing with pop star Katy Perry. Hillary Clinton will attend the dinner, but has not yet set her schedule for earlier in the day.

The rally is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are encouraged. It begins at 3 p.m. It’ll be Bill Clinton’s first appearance in Iowa of the 2016 campaign season. (He was last here in November, 2014, to campaign for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Braley.)

All five major Democratic Party candidates will attend the “JJ” dinner, which historically has marked the beginning of the final stage of the Iowa caucuses campaign. Candidates often use the event to wow their supporters with star power and show off their grassroots organizational strength to other candidates and the media.