Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, two of the top names in the 2024 GOP presidential primary field, are set to be in Iowa this weekend, marking the first time the two will be in the critical state simultaneously this election cycle.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov.
DeSantis is not the first potential 2024 contender to be invited to the Iowa congressman's Family Picnic. In the spring of 2021, former Vice President Mike Pence, fresh off the White House, became the first special guest at the first Feenstra annual picnic, and last year, Trump's former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley -- herself now a 2024 hopeful -- joined the Feenstra picnic as she was mulling a presidential run.
Kaufmann added that his conversation with DeSantis will be a great opportunity for Iowans to learn more about him as a person and not just as a governor. "Trump sees DeSantis as the biggest threat right now," Bob Vander Plaats, president of conservative Iowa-based group the Family Leader and a prominent figure in Iowa politics, told ABC News.
"Let's say the race were to remain the way it is right now, [where] there are six or seven candidates in the races. Most likely, Trump will win the Iowa caucuses, and he'd win the Republican primary just by the math of division," Vander Plaats continued.
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