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The 2020 presidential candidate with the biggest presence in Iowa on caucuses day might just have been the barely challenged Republican incumbent.

More than 120 surrogates for President Trump blitzed the Hawkeye State on Monday as part of a counter-programming push by his reelection campaign.

The contingent included the president’s adult sons, Don Jr. and Eric, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Also chipping in were some of Trump’s most stalwart supporters on Capitol Hill, including Reps. Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows and Elise Stefanik.

“It’s about making sure people know you’re working on their behalf and he’s not going to take any of these states for granted, because what we learned in 2016 is that Democrats took their voters for granted,” Stefanik told The Post.

Trump carried Iowa by 9 percentage points in 2016 and faced no serious challenger in the Republican primary, which ran concurrently to the Democratic contest on Monday.

“Our caucus day operation is just a preview of what is to come,” said Brad Parscale, Trump’s 2020 campaign manager. “We are putting the Democrats on notice. Good luck trying to keep up with this formidable reelection machine.”

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