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Posted on 09/19/2023 11:31:56 AM PDT by conservative98
Donald Trump’s campaign believes Ron DeSantis is flatlining. Now, they want to bury him.
The former president and his team are beefing up their efforts in Iowa, hoping to deliver the type of knock-out punch that would effectively end the Florida governor’s bid and send a message to the other campaigns to get out of the way.
Building on his seven visits to Iowa so far this year, Trump is embarking on a “Team Trump Caucus Commitment” organizing event in Iowa with campaign volunteers at the Jackson County Fairgrounds in Maquoketa, and remarks at the Grand River Conference Center in Dubuque this Wednesday. Trump plans to make three more stops in Iowa during the first half of October, and again in the final days of the month, his team said. The Trump campaign is also bringing on Alex Meyer, who was recently part of the RNC’s political data team, as a senior adviser to focus on both Iowa and Missouri.
It’s a remarkable investment of time from a candidate who has, through the summer, left a light footprint on the trail. And it’s being supplemented with an air attack by Trump world as a pro-DeSantis PAC advertises aggressively in the state. MAGA Inc., the super PAC supporting Trump, is spending over $700,000 on advertising this week in Iowa, according to the ad tracking firm AdImpact. Trump’s Iowa team is focused on educating and training Trump supporters on the caucus process, and the Trump campaign has boasted of 27,500 signed caucus pledge cards and 1,500 local volunteers in the state.
“No candidate has ever won Iowa [GOP caucus] by more than 12 points and even the most conservative polls have us at double that margin,” said Alex Latcham, the Trump campaign’s early states director. “But I try to continuously remind our team and our staff and everybody that we do not take it for granted.”
Trump’s flurry of activity in the state comes as his rivals have been crisscrossing Iowa in hopes that they can somehow, finally, change the trajectory of the race, which seems less and less competitive each day. Trump is, at this juncture, the runaway frontrunner nationally, and in Iowa, he is beating DeSantis in state polls by about 30 points....
Last week, DeSantis World was claiming "sources" they don't actually have in Trump World told them the former president was "forfeiting" Iowa.
Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth... https://t.co/yVLjqYzqpg— Rich Baris "The People's Pundit" (@Peoples_Pundit) September 18, 2023
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Meatball is toast. Please send campaign money to fund his new seaside villa with swimming pool
Ron’s doing pretty well with that all by himself.....
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How very sad. Angry Trumpers have now resorted to getting their hateful hit pieces from a left-wing blog.
Ha! In other words, Trump’s internal polling shows that he is losing ground in Iowa, especially after insulting their extremely popular governor 2 months ago and alienating adamant pro lifers across America three days ago when he denounced governors who have post 6 week bans on abortion in place in their states. Just last week Donnie Jr was lamenting the poor ground game in Iowa. I honestly think that Trump is intentionally destroying his campaign.
Trump’s hate filled obsession with DeSantis is going to cost him in the general. If he gets that far…
Kind of fitting insofar as their god-king is a NY-RINO.
Ronnie got in to take out Trump.
Only fair for Trump to crush Ronnie back.
Politics ain’t bean bag.
Beefing up his efforts to win in Iowa is not hate. It is a competition. We keep hearing how Meatball has a big ground game and he is gonna win.
Competition. get it?
Trump’s hate filled obsession with DeSantis is going to cost him in the general. If he gets that far…
His nasty @$$ supporters aren’t helping any either. Get it???
In their minds it is beanbag. Only Meatball gets to compete. Everyone else has to shut up or its hate.
Seems you are a little nasty wee we’ed up there. Chill out. It is just a competition.
Pot calling the kettle black? LOL
They all did that. Yet, strangely enough, Trump only wants to crush the one actual conservative running in a primary.
Trump is a New York RINO?
And yet, we hate RINOs, here on Free Republic.
But we love Trump.
Suffice it to say, there are varying issues involved with people favoring one candidate or another.
I thought we couldn’t post articles from Politico?
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