Posted on 01/15/2024 8:47:10 AM PST by conservative98
DES MOINES, Iowa — Hourlong lines in the cold, authorized and unauthorized Make America Great Again merchandise, highly produced “how to caucus” videos — former President Donald Trump may be the messenger, but he has undisputedly inspired a movement.
That is what Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley are up against in Iowa as Trump averages a 30 percentage point advantage on his primary opponents before the Republican Party’s 2024 opening nominating contest on Monday.
Before Trump’s Mason City rally last weekend, Debbie Neuberger, who read about the campaign stop in “the newspaper,” underscored how most of the people packed into the North Iowa Events Center were for the former president and “they’re going to vote, vote, vote.”
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Dallas County Republican Chairwoman Kelley Koch, who represents a region close to more liberal Des Moines, contended DeSantis, in particular, was “misadvised” and that “98%” of Iowa Republicans had decided for whom they would be caucusing “a while ago” but did not share their decision with pollsters or reporters.
“All the other guys never really entered the picture,” Koch said after a drop-in with Donald Trump Jr. in Urbandale. “The reason why, and I mean this sincerely, our country is so messed up right now, with so many problems, that we don’t have time for a rookie.”
Of DeSantis, she added: “I don’t think they truly knew that the MAGA people were sleeping at home, working every day, raising kids. And then when the race kicked in, everybody started to wake up.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
We have been warning DeSantis supporters about this for months—DeSantis has an astroturf campaign that does not touch the ground.
DeSantis’ advisors/consultants bled him dry—and he is about to find out just how badly they lied to him.
“Well, I wouldn’t use David and Goliath because we know David won that battle,” Kari Lake added. “This is like T-ball versus the major leagues, and we’ve got Babe Ruth in President Trump."— Naomi Lim (@naomitlim) January 15, 2024
Trump has to be very careful.......he does all the right
things, he’s upfront, respects the protocols of politics.
He refused to delete Rove’s number.
are the democrats caucusing in Iowa tonight?
But Rob Flacks have been chanting that ROB ALONE had the best ground game in Iowa.
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