More than 30 former staffers who worked for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis showed their support for his 2024 campaign in Iowa over the weekend.
They visited Smokey Row Coffee in Des Moines, Iowa, where DeSantis marked 100 days until the Jan. 15 Iowa Caucuses on Saturday, his campaign told The Post.
“I have, in Iowa today, a bunch of my former staff, from the Governor, Congress who have paid their own way to come to Iowa to be able to go knock on people’s doors,” DeSantis said during his speech. “Not all candidates have that, obviously.”
Among those present were two former chiefs of staff Shane Strum and Adrian Lukas, as well as former Department of Management Services secretary Jonathan Satter.
Ron DeSantis poses with more than 20 of his former staffers who are supporting him in the 2024 GOP race. DeSantis Campaign
“We have people who are motivated to do it, and I think it’s going to be meaningful and impactful to a lot of these people because they see these people from Florida show up on their doorstep,” DeSantis added.
“And for those of you who are Iowans, this is much colder than we’re used to in the first week of October.”
DeSantis visited the Hawkeye State this weekend as part of a three-day bus tour with the Never Back Down Super PAC, which is aligned with his campaign.
The governor is a special guest of the Super PAC. He has sought to storm through all 99 districts of the state and started the weekend with 58 districts under him.
Florida’s governor pointed out that few other candidates had any comparable display of support from their former staff. DeSantis campaign
Many alumni from DeSantis’ gubernatorial team have delved into the 45-year-old governor’s campaign operations in the past.
For example, over the summer, he tapped James Uthmeier to serve as campaign manager, after a change in downsizing his staff. Uthmeier previously served as his chief of staff.
DeSantis has invested heavily in Iowa, conducting a torrent of local media interviews in addition to an intense campaign.
His campaign recently moved nearly a third of its Tallahassee staff to Des Moines.
Former President Donald Trump is the reigning 2024 GOP frontrunner in Iowa by 33.2 percentage points over second-place DeSantis, according to the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate.
DeSantis has downplayed the polls, noting that it is early and noting that many voters are still undecided.
Trump’s team recently sent a top adviser to Iowa, according to Bloomberg.
Given Iowa’s place as the first in the national primary, it has the potential to provide momentum to candidates in the 2024 GOP scrum.
Nationally, Trump maintains a staggering 44.8 percentage point lead over DeSantis, his closest rival, according to the RealClearPolitics aggregate.
Categories: Trending
Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
