Posted on 08/22/2023 11:10:31 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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The Iowa State Fair is a hotly anticipated event in the Hawkeye State, and last weekend’s fair didn’t disappoint.
President Donald Trump made a grand entrance to the fair last Saturday, where he arrived in style on his personal Boeing 757, Trump Force One, and walked through the fairgrounds with an entourage of security personnel and members of the press.
According to a report from KCCI9 Des Moines, daily attendance for the fair was impressive over the weekend, drawing nearly 120,000 attendees on Saturday when Trump was there, amounting to several thousand more people than in 2022.
Trump told reporters last week at the fair that it was “a beautiful day in Iowa” and referred to the turnout as a “record crowd.”
Although other Republican candidates made appearances at the Iowa State Fair last weekend, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., Trump drew overwhelming support from the crowds in Des Moines, posing for photos, buying food for fair-goers, and inviting a crew of America First lawmakers to join him onstage for remarks in the afternoon.
In Iowa, the president is performing exceptionally well ahead of the 2024 Republican Iowa caucuses. According to polling data from The Trafalgar Group, Trump is leading the field of GOP presidential candidates by 26 points, dominating DeSantis, who won 16 percent of support. Popular Republican candidate and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy captured 6 percent of the Iowa vote in the same poll.
This week, MAGA Inc, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt facetiously remarked, “We highly encourage Ron DeSantis to finish his 99 county tour and meet as many Iowa voters as possible. The more counties that Ron visits, the more his poll numbers fall. Millions of dollars have been wasted trying to salvage the campaign of a candidate who is clearly incapable of connecting with voters. Every dollar burned on Ron DeSantis is also diverted from helping President Trump defeat Joe Biden.”
The lesson from that election is that fraud vitiates the contest and overcomes the people’s will.
Yup, this is the correct lesson.
Day 3, Saturday:
2023: 118,286
2022: 113,012
Daily record: 127,277 in 1991
You learned nothing.
Despite having larger crowds than Biden, Trump lost in 2020, 306-232.
Why are democrats allowed to troll this site?
Adoring Iowa crowd greets Trump.(Des Moines Register)
Trump gobbles down Iowa Fair's famous juicy, tender pork on a stick.
No he didn't. You can carry on with that lie as long as you want.
A question for the ages. I have a WAG but I will have to keep that to myself for a spell. I want to see if the traditional election cycle purge takes place. I'm all about tradition.
I hope Donald has a security detail, that he pays, keeping an eye on the Biden Deep State paid Secret Service.
“ Keep touting “huge” crowds. A lesson from the 2020 election is that crowd size does not equate to victory.”
Yeah oh Dense One, it’s who counts the ballots and sometimes illegal ballots.
Look at the picture, Gobbe r. Do you believe that having gone through heat and travel to rallies and spending hours and hours waiting for Trump and cheering like college football fans,...are not going to vote for Trump across town??
I said a year ago, Trump became the presumptive R nominee the day he announced. The real challenge for him is getting the election process fixed.
And for those who say “well Trump is a private citizen, how can you expect him to repair the election process”?
Nobody seems to think Soros needs to be in elected office to influence this stuff.
I think you directed your post to the wrong person.
Prob. I’m good at that.
As always evil doers can act in ways that people who respect the law & the Constitution can not. That makes the playing field uneven. Good has to work very hard to work around and heaven has to smile.
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