A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis completes the much-ballyhooed “Full Grassley” on Saturday in Iowa, staging a rally in his 99th county.
And he won’t be alone, as the Florida Governor’s two major Hawkeye State endorsers will be on hand for the event at the Thunderdome in Newton.
Gov. Kim Reynolds and Bob Vander Plaats of the Family Leader Foundation are slated to speak at the event, which will put on display the two bookends of the DeSantis strategy in the state.
Questions have emerged about the endorsements, particularly from the Donald Trump camp, which has spotlighted payments to Van Der Plaats that added up to at least $95,000 earlier this year. For his part, DeSantis says the money was spent on “advertising,” though he falsely claimed that only a supportive political committee and not his campaign ponied up, contradicting reports from the summer on the subject.
First Lady Casey DeSantis will also be speaking at the event, continuing to maintain a robust presence beside her husband on the campaign trail.
DeSantis’ latest trip to Iowa comes as polling shows him continuing to struggle not only with the former President but also with surging Nikki Haley in the caucus state, indicating there is some truth in the Trump camp claims that the brokered endorsements “have failed to give Ron and his campaign any type of positive boost.”
A Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll conducted late last month showed DeSantis and Haley tied at 16%, with Trump at 43%. That survey is widely regarded as a reliable benchmark in the Hawkeye State.
That survey’s results were effectively corroborated by a Trafalgar Group survey conducted Nov. 3-5, in which Trump’s 44% support is more than the aggregate backing for DeSantis (18%), Haley (15%) and Tim Scott (9%), who has since exited the presidential race.
7 comments
Jay Smif
November 29, 2023 at 2:55 pm
Hmmm, the governor is one thing, but the evangelical he bought off with $100k in sheer payola (who will back Fat Hitler regardless) and his scheming, worthless co-grifter Wal-Mart Melania are the “special guests?” How lame. Will the kids come out and do a rendition of the “Horst Wessel song” to kick off this particular klan rally?
Lapdog Lapado
November 29, 2023 at 3:06 pm
Poor lil fella, “these peeps luv me” isn’t going to garner 51% of the US vote.
Poor lil guy.
rick whitaker
November 29, 2023 at 3:21 pm
are iowa voters stupid enough to support desantis? or, are they stupid enough to support trump? both are bad candidates, so the country wins either way
Michael K
November 29, 2023 at 4:42 pm
Wow. What a lineup.
Elmo
November 29, 2023 at 5:50 pm
His loser wife is a joke too.
My Take
November 30, 2023 at 3:02 am
Ì guess Kissingeŕ isn’t going to make it.
My Take
November 30, 2023 at 3:09 am
Maybe DeSScamus should swap Casey in as the “DeSSantis” candidate. Promise the MAGA masses and other morons, “You get my politics and decisions, but without having to see, hear, or hear about me.”
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