Off to the races: The 2024 campaign begins in earnest with DeSantis in Iowa

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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), and the former South Carolina GOP Governor. Nikki Haley On Friday, former President Obama will visit the Hawkeye State. Donald Trump The possibility of a surprise visit by the president is being teased. Iowa is used to this tradition, hosting its first annual party caucuses in every year since 1926.

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“We’ve got a trickle of possible and a couple of actual candidates coming through already,” Dennis Goldford from Drake University, a professor at the Des Moines-based institution since 1985. “In that sense, it’s sort of a normal, early trickle.”

DeSantis will be making his Iowa debut, and stopping by Des Moines on Friday. He’ll also stop in Davenport where he’ll join Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA). Florida governor Kim Reynolds (R-IA) has not yet announced his candidacy. White House However, it consistently polls as Trump’s biggest GOP threat.

Haley will be there as well, and will be speaking with Senator Joni Ernst (R – IA). Haley has been the only major Republican that has challenged Trump to date and has stated it’s now time for an a “new generation of leaders” Who will? “look forward.”

Trump has said that he will visit the state in the meantime “very soon,” More people will be visiting the site ahead of the election. Iowa’s caucus takes place on Jan. 22, 2024. New Hampshire follows 8 days later.

The interviewees of this story stated that Trump was the GOP candidate to defeat in this election cycle. Another described Trump as an “amazing” person. “10,000-pound gorilla” And another: He’s “the elephant in the room.”

“It’s more of a trickle than a flood because on the Republican side, you could argue there is a quasi-incumbent,” Goldford also added. “There is a single, dominant figure. You can contrast that on the Republican side to 2016, in which there was a flood of candidates because there was no obvious next in line. That’s a major difference.”

Some other candidates may also have visited. The former Vice President Mike Pence addressed Cedar Rapids parents’ rights, and Senator Tim Scott (R.S.C.), spoke in Des Moines on optimism. Just one day following the declaration of Vivek Ramaswamy as the candidate, he stopped by Iowa on Thursday.