{"id":574343,"date":"2023-05-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trump-desantis-rivalry-ratchets-up-with-dueling-iowa-visits\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T10:00:00","slug":"trump-desantis-rivalry-ratchets-up-with-dueling-iowa-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trump-desantis-rivalry-ratchets-up-with-dueling-iowa-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trump-DeSantis rivalry ratchets up with dueling Iowa visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/trumpdonald_desantisron_051223gn_rivalry.png?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) are heading to Iowa on Saturday for dueling events that underscore the escalating rivalry between the two leading contenders for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has been slated for weeks to headline Rep. Randy Feenstra\u2019s (R-Iowa) annual Family Picnic in Sioux Center, Iowa, and speak at a state GOP fundraiser in Cedar Rapids, while Trump\u2019s campaign announced just last week that he would hold a rally in Des Moines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The competing engagements are expected to shine a light on the increasingly contentious and bitter matchup between DeSantis and Trump, who has sought to freeze the Florida governor out of the 2024 race before he even officially announces a campaign.<\/p>\n<p>A person familiar with Trump\u2019s plans said that the Iowa rally had been planned for weeks before it was officially rolled out. Still, the optics of the event, taking place on the same day as DeSantis\u2019s Iowa swing, underscore how eager Trump is to counter DeSantis in a critical early-voting state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt absolutely looks intentional,\u201d one Republican strategist who\u2019s worked on presidential campaigns said. \u201cIt\u2019s par for the course for Trump. He sees something h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening somewhere and im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely thinks he needs to counterprogram it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis hasn\u2019t formally jumped into the 2024 race yet but is expected to launch a campaign in the coming weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Never Back Down, the main super PAC backing DeSantis\u2019s presidential ambitions, has already begun to lay the groundwork for an Iowa operation, hiring half a dozen staffers in the state to begin rallying support for him ahead of a formal campaign launch. The group noted that DeSantis\u2019s scheduled appearance at Feenstra\u2019s picnic had already broken records for RSVPs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Never Back Down has also begun to run ads in Iowa and other early-voting states, like New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, and has begun to hire staff in 14 other states in preparation for Super Tuesday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe Never Back Down grassroots movement is seeing huge support swelling on the ground in Iowa for DeSantis, from the endorsements of influential state GOP leaders to a record number of RSVPs for Rep. Feenstra\u2019s Family Picnic headlined by the Governor,\u201d Erin Perrine, the communications director for Never Back Down, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIowans are impressed with Governor DeSantis\u2019 record of unapologetic success in Florida and want to see that in the White House. Should DeSantis decide to run for President, it\u2019s clear Iowans will be behind him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Early polling out of Iowa is scarce, though most surveys show Trump with a comfortable lead over DeSantis. Yet a poll from Public Opinion Strategies conducted in March pegged DeSantis\u2019s favorability rating above that of Trump.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>And when DeSantis touches down in the Hawkeye State on Saturday, he will already have something to brag about.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>State Senate President Amy Sinclair and House Majority Leader Matt Windschitl endorsed the Florida governor\u2019s presidential ambitions on Thursday, lending him the support of two well-known \u2014 and deeply conservative \u2014 Iowa Republicans and highlighting a desire among at least some GOP officials to move on from Trump in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a leader that\u2019s looking forward towards the future, not a leader that\u2019s looking in the rearview mirror and potentially going to be vindictive towards other people,\u201d Windschitl\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/elections\/presidential\/caucus\/2023\/05\/11\/two-high-profile-republicans-endorse-ron-desantis-in-2024-iowa-caucuses\/70199417007\/\">told the Des Moines Register<\/a>\u00a0this week. \u201cWe need somebody that\u2019s accountable to the people that has proven in their state that they can do this job and take that same prosperity and spread it throughout America.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But Trump has his own high-profile backers in Iowa, including his former acting Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Matt Whitaker and former Rep. Rod Blum (R-Iowa), as well as nearly a dozen other state Republican lawmakers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former president is heading into 2024 with a much more professional and organized caucus infrastructure, intent on heading off a repeat of 2016. Leading the effort as his state director is Marshall Moreau, who managed Brenna Bird\u2019s successful campaign last year to oust now-former state Attorney General Tom Miller.<\/p>\n<p>The Saturday stops in Iowa will test both Trump and DeSantis. The former president notably finished second to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in the 2016 Iowa caucuses, and a lackluster finish in 2024 would almost certainly be seen as a blow to his standing in the GOP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>At the same time, Trump and DeSantis will have to step outside of their respective comfort zones to focus on the kind of face-to-face retail politicking typical of presidential campaigns in Iowa, Keith Naughton, a veteran Republican strategist said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIowa\u2019s more about retail politics,\u201d Naughton said. \u201cTrump is a rally guy. He\u2019s the guy that\u2019s going to do all the talking. I think DeSantis has had a little more experience on that front, but he has had a hard time connecting with voters on a personal level, so I think it\u2019s a test for both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. 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Ron DeSantis (R) are heading to Iowa on Saturday for dueling events that underscore the escalating rivalry between the two leading contenders for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. DeSantis has been slated for weeks to headline Rep. Randy Feenstra\u2019s (R-Iowa) annual Family Picnic in Sioux Center, Iowa, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":574344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/trumpdonald_desantisron_051223gn_rivalry.png?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134417,134343,134353,4941,124783,143112,29102,134345,42873],"class_list":["post-574343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-blog-briefing-room","tag-campaign","tag-court-battles","tag-donald-trump","tag-international","tag-randy-feenstra","tag-ron-desantis","tag-state-watch","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}