Republican VP candidate will visit Iowa next week

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will be in southeastern Iowa on Tuesday, a second day of campaigning in the state.

On Monday, he'll be in Dubuque.

This will be the second time in a month that the Republican presidential ticket has been to the Quad-City region. Presidential nominee Mitt Romney was in Bettendorf on Aug. 22.

The Romney campaign said today that Ryan, a congressman from Wisconsin, will be in Clinton, Muscatine and Burlington. Details of the stops haven't been released yet.

The campaign swing will come in an area Republicans think holds some promise for them. Sarah Pompei, a Romney spokeswoman, said voters in this part of the state are open to their message. Gov. Terry Branstad and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, performed well in the area in 2010, and the GOP thinks their economic message sells in this part of the state.

Ryan's travel here also will closely track Vice President Joe Biden's tour of southeast Iowa last week. Biden made a stop in Muscatine, then rallied supporters in Burlington as part of a multi-day swing through the state.