Trump will also head to Iowa later Wednesday, and DeSantis will travel to New Hampshire Thursday, then South Carolina Friday.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and wife Casey boosted his record leading Florida during the pandemic in their debut appearances on the campaign trail in Iowa—where DeSantis leaned into his war on “woke” culture, attacking “identity politics” and the “pronoun sweepstakes,” as he aims to run to the right of former President Donald Trump.... [+]Key Facts
DeSantis spoke about his right-wing legislative record in Florida, noting he signed a six-week abortion ban, sent “illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard” and opposed corporate environmental, social and governance policies. After the Tuesday speech, which marked DeSantis’ first in-person appearance on the campaign trail since his botched Twitter announcement last Wednesday, DeSantis kicked of a series of four events across Iowa on Wednesday, starting with a speech at a welding company in Sioux City, where he repeated many of the same talking points and called Iowa, “the Florida of the North.”
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