“I think we’re not going to have much of a challenge,' former President Donald Trump said in response to a question about Ron DeSantis from reporters.
Former President Donald Trump said he considers Ron DeSantis as his strongest potential challenger for the Republican nomination and attacked the Florida governor during his first 2024 campaign stop in Iowa.
“And to be honest with you, Ron reminds me a lot of Mitt Romney,” Trump said of the 2012 GOP presidential nominee who’s no longer very popular among Iowa Republicans. “So I don’t think you’re going to be doing so well here. But we’re going to find out. But those are the facts.” Trump often says that it was his endorsement that enabled DeSantis to win the GOP primary and be elected governor in 2018. The former president responded “Yeah, maybe” when asked by reporters whether he now regrets that endorsement.
Others, however, have shown strong interest, including former Vice President Mike Pence, who at an event in Washington on Saturday offered his strongest public rebuke yet of his ex-boss’s rhetoric and actions on Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn his 2020 election loss.
An Iowa Poll released Friday found that while Trump still enjoys strong backing among Republicans in the state, DeSantis also has a robust favorability rating and the former president’s support has eroded. The findings are consistent with polls elsewhere that show many Republican voters still like Trump but are open to voting for a candidate who supports his policies without the political baggage.
The poll numbers should be concerning for Trump as a former president who won Iowa twice, according to David Kochel, a veteran Republican strategist.
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