Posted on 10/16/2023 7:55:33 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Trump’s Iowa campaign ramps up its organizing after his infamously chaotic 2016 second-place effortBy THOMAS BEAUMONTAssociated PressThe Associated PressDES MOINES, Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — By the time Donald Trump returns to Iowa on Monday, the Republican former president will have drawn more than 10,000 people to his events in the state in less than a month.
There’s no guarantee his crowds will translate to support in the state’s Jan. 15 caucuses, which will launch the 2024 nominating cycle. But unlike his seat-of-the-pants campaign in 2016, he has a more sophisticated organization to capitalize on his high-wattage events and often emphasizes in his remarks how to participate in the caucuses.
Trump isn’t downplaying expectations that he will win Iowa this time. His advisers want to lock in a blowout that discourages talk of a second-place finisher consolidating support and taking on the former president directly.
A traditional measure of campaign organization in Iowa is the caucus pledge card. People who attend Trump’s events are asked to sign a commitment that they will attend the caucuses and support him, providing their contact information so the campaign can inquire about them volunteering and finding others to attend.
After Trump’s second-place 2016 finish behind Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a ragtag effort of big crowds but little organization, state GOP staffers cleaned out his caucus campaign office to find thousands of signed pledge cards that had never been logged.
This time, his campaign aims to enter each card into its database within a day and to call each signee within two days. It collected 1,200 cards from two events on Oct. 7 out of about
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In open election years, Iowa’s caucuses have a horrible track record of picking the nominee... I think they have only picked the eventual nominee maybe 1 or 2 times.
Iowa, is about the only state where anyone other than Trump could win this cycle... the caucuses are just chaotic things. Whoever can bring the most vocal folks to the party seems to win, regardless of how much actual support they may have.
Personally I think Trump will handily win Iowa, but if there is a place for a surprise, Iowa is the only place.
Trump will run the board everywhere the voters actually cast ballots in the primary.
Agree, if Trump wins Iowa and if the numbers look anything like the polls how in the world will he lose anywhere else? Maybe VA?
President Trump needs to keep a careful eye on Iowa. That was the site of the Steal of 2016 (part 1) when Ted Cruz illegally stole the Caucus Win which should have been anulled or redone.
As I said, I expect Trump to win Iowa, however if there was any state where someone else could win Iowa with its caucuses is a place where a surprise could happen.
Oh, I wasn’t disagreeing with you. I was confirming.
I bet not many remember how the media handled this first win by a Hispanic of a presidential caucus.
The almost entirely ignored the winner and instead raved about the battle between the 2nd-place Trump and the 3rd-place Rubio, it was very strange.
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