Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The National Weather Service says severe thunderstorms may have created tornadoes in Iowa and Nebraska on Wednesday. Rich Thompson, lead forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma says the reports of twisters spotted yesterday could not be verified until survey teams were sent to the affected areas.

ATLANTIC, Iowa (AP) —Speaking in Tuesday night’s debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Florida Senator Marco Rubio cast the election as a “generational choice,” implicitly contrasting his youth with the political dynasties of older competitors — former Governor Jeb Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton. On Wednesday, Rubio appealed to evangelical voters in a speech at a crowded restaurant gathering in Davenport, Iowa.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Donald Trump says watching his Republican rivals drop out of the GOP presidential race is a “beautiful thing.” Speaking to a breakfast audience in New Hampshire yesterday, Trump said he expects more presidential contenders to start dropping out as they fail to rise in the polls. Former Texas Governor Rick Perry and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker dropped out this fall.

KINGSTON, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is framing himself as the political heir to Donald Trump should the billionaire businessman fail in his effort to win the party’s nomination, saying Trump’s supporters should come to his campaign. The Texas senator spoke to supporters Wednesday night during a town hall meeting in New Hampshire a day after the latest Republican debate.