Staff Reports
Gov. Ron DeSantis is back in Iowa, following the footsteps of one of the state’s most influential politicians.
The DeSantis campaign told media Saturday night that the GOP candidate is back on track to go “full Grassley,” an homage to the strategy employed by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a longtime sitting Republican lawmaker from Iowa.
The game plan? Visit all 99 counties in Iowa before the caucuses. Grassley has a legacy of spending time in each county on a yearly basis, and as the longest serving Republican in the Senate, it’s a no-brainer for GOP presidential hopefuls to borrow from his playbook.
“The DeSantis family is back in Iowa for a three-day swing,” the media update said. DeSantis is on a “quest to visit all of the state’s 99 counties,” it added.
As of Saturday, DeSantis had visited 64 Iowa counties, giving him ample time to visit the remaining before the caucuses on January 15.
Iowa isn’t the only state to boast impressive campaign feats. Florida’s walkin’ Lawton Chiles famously completed a thousand-mile hike across the Sunshine State in 1970, an effort that helped him ascend to the U.S. Senate and later the Governor’s Office.
As the first state to officially weigh in on the primaries, the importance of Iowa can not be overstated. And winning Iowa requires understanding Grassley.
“Along with the sanctity of ethanol and the primacy of pork products, they eventually grasp this is Sen. Charles E. Grassley’s state,” Roll Call’s Jason Dick once wrote about primary candidates.
While former President Donald Trump appears to hold a commanding lead in Iowa, DeSantis is the consensus next-closest GOP candidate, according to the latest polls.
Before last week, DeSantis campaigned in California and joined six other Republican candidates in the party’s second debate of the season. One survey showed caucus-going Iowans enjoyed his performance at the debate more than any other candidate’s.
But of course, Trump skipped the debate and therefore wasn’t an option on the survey.
11 comments
My Take
October 8, 2023 at 12:35 pm
“Donald Trump appears to hold a commanding lead in Iowa”
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Ocean Joe
October 8, 2023 at 1:12 pm
Desantis was on Fox Sunday complaining about conservative voices being drowned out.
HOW DO YOU THINK IT GOT THAT WAY?
Let’s reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine in communications via the FCC that conservatives abolished. Reagan administration paved the way for one sided news orgs like Fox and CNN to brainwash the American people without the slightest opportunity to hear the other side.
Unwoke and Going Broke In Florida
October 8, 2023 at 3:30 pm
Cons endlessly complaining, grievance both real and imagined, and all we hear is ‘who is there for me?’
You Christians are 70.9% of the US.
Fix yourselves.
Rick Whitaker
October 8, 2023 at 6:16 pm
you mentioned lawton chiles and grassley vising all the counties in their states. desantis does not live in iowa, it’s not quite the same. desantis is an active governor so if he takes the time to do all that campaigning in one relatively small state, who’s running florida in the interim. when desantis finally comes home from being defeated, the florida voters need to flip his policies and start healing florida from the nightmare desantis represents.
Rick Whitaker
October 8, 2023 at 6:24 pm
christians are dominators and rarely change for the good. they don’t think there is anything to fix. they push their laws and influence on non christians like me . they want to save people that don’t want to be saved. they re-program homosexuals. they say they are of god and non christians are ungodly. no, they won’t fix themselves,but they will unfix you.
Biscuit
October 8, 2023 at 2:40 pm
Newsflash! Ron DeSantis continues his “full assley” quest…there he goes, and there he goes, and yes, folks, he’s done it! A complete ass!
Stupid human.
Arf.
Richard Russell
October 9, 2023 at 4:29 pm
WOW, THATS GREAT, WHAT ABOUT YOUR FULL TIME JOB – SO I WASTED A VOTE ON YOU EXPECTING A FULL TIME GOVERNOR. At least with Trump, I know he will devote his entire four years from Jan 20, 2025 saving our country and not off campaigning.
Rick Whitaker
October 10, 2023 at 4:29 pm
if you wasn’t such a hater, you would of had a good democrat governor. trump being for desantis should have been a red flag to you. trump ALWAYS backs the wrong person, that’s his thing, chaos
Tom Sorensen
October 11, 2023 at 1:23 am
Trump will just play more golf but I have never heard of a prison that has a golf course, maybe he will just hang himself wouldn’t that be great
Rick Whitaker
October 11, 2023 at 6:10 am
i have a friend that served time in a federal minimum security prison and it had a golf course. he worked on the course as part of the grounds crew
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