Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis battled for Iowa Republican support at a campaign stop Saturday with just 100 days to go before the Hawkeye state’s January caucuses.
At the Waterloo rally, his third stop in Iowa in less than two weeks, Trump spoke to more than 1,700 attendees at a rally to rally their support in January, while hundreds more waited outside.
“We need to win bigger than we have won before, because our country is going to hell,” said the former president. “We have to stop it.”
The former president blasted President Joe Biden as responsible for Hamas’ bloody attack on Israel Saturday because of the weakness shown by the commander-in-chief on the global stage.
“The Israeli attack was made because we were considered weak and ineffective, like a really weak leader,” he said.
Trump encouraged Iowa Republicans to vote for him in the caucuses “because our country is going to hell.” Reuters
Trump also slammed New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office is pursuing a $250 million civil fraud case against him, calling her “incompetent” and a “bad guy.”
Meanwhile, DeSantis addressed a crowd in Ankeny at one of three campaign stops in the first state in the nation Saturday, where he pledged to “use lethal force” to crack down on Mexican drug cartels that bring drugs into the United States. and to improve mental health services for veterans.
“Our children are being killed by Mexican drug cartels and by [Chinese Communist Party] which gives chemical precursors,” he said.
DeSantis vowed that he would use deadly force to wipe out Mexican drug cartels.Twitter
The Republican presidential candidate, who recently moved about a third of his staff from Florida to Iowa to focus on undermining Trump in the state, also took the opportunity to hit out at his primary party rival for breaking his 2016 campaign promise to keep Mexico. with the bill when erecting the border wall.
“That’s not a promise to keep, but you can actually ask Mexico to pay if you know how to use your power,” he said, suggesting he could charge money on money sent home by people in the United States to families in Central America.
“You will raise billions of dollars, you will be able to finance a wall from sea to shining sea,” he added.
“I’m not only going to keep my promises as president, I’m going to keep Donald Trump’s promises that he didn’t keep.”
The 77-year-old former president dominated the field in the GOP front-runner state, edging out DeSantis, 45, by 33.2 percentage points over DeSantis, according to the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate.
With Postal wire.
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