Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump will campaign Saturday in west-central Iowa as part of his fall push to sign up supporters and volunteers ahead of the state’s leadoff caucuses, now less than two months away.
Trump is expected to headline an organizing rally in Fort Dodge, a GOP-leaning hub, the latest in a series of targeted regional stops aimed at seizing on the large crowds the former president draws to press attendees to commit to voting for him on Jan. 15.
The midday event set for Fort Dodge High School would be Trump’s sixth Iowa visit since late September. While Trump has led Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley comfortably in polls of likely caucus participants, Trump’s campaign has been more aggressive in Iowa than any of the other early-voting states in the Republican presidential nominating calendar.
Speaking on a radio show Thursday to promote his appearance, Trump ripped DeSantis as “doing very poorly” even after winning the endorsement of Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, who broke with the general practice of Iowa governors not to support a candidate before the caucuses.
“I was really good to her and then she said she was going to remain neutral. And I said, ‘That’s OK,’ but I didn’t really want her particularly,” he told host Simon Conway.
“Ron is doing very poorly in the polls and I guess he put a full-court press on her,” Trump said. “And she did that. And that’s fine. I think it’s fine. I don’t think it’s made any difference.”
Trump has made regular stops in Iowa, appearing at eight events before audiences totaling more than 16,000, according to Trump’s Secret Service detail, in the past eight weeks.
6 comments
Tom
November 18, 2023 at 8:42 am
I feel sorry for the people of Iowa. Imagine the deluge of BS on TV with all these clowns running around kissing babies and generally making a nuisance of themselves.
Impeach Biden
November 18, 2023 at 8:47 am
The biggest creep of all around children is “ Dementia Joe”.
Tom
November 18, 2023 at 12:16 pm
You seem to have biden derangement syndrome. Did the impeachment thing ever play out or did they take a break to stop the country shutting down (again)? I haven’t heard much about that of late.
Impeach Biden
November 18, 2023 at 12:30 pm
You obviously have DeSantis derangement syndrome. I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy. He should be impeached based on his incompetence on the Southern Border fiasco and the Afghanistan withdrawal. Now watch him take millions of Palestinian refugees. The people no other Arab nation wants.
Tom
November 18, 2023 at 4:16 pm
Nah. Desantis is just a wanna be fascist. He’ll never get the top job. As for the border, yep, it’s a problem and has been since the 1960’s. It needs to be resolved by Congress once and for all but they won’t touch it so whoever the President du jour is will be saddled with it as that can gets kicked down the road again and again. From what I’ve read, Desantis did absolutely nothing about it when he was in the House – he was all about cutting social security and now the border is all somebody else’s fault. If you like him, vote for him. Were it not for reading FP and living in Florida, he’d be right up there with Doug Burgum in the list of people nobody has heard of.
My Take
November 18, 2023 at 12:07 pm
The place is supposedly filled with evangelicals.
They can consider it just another plague.
Frogs, locusts, Republicans
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