The ex-president is upping his presence in Iowa in an attempt to close any door on a comeback by the Florida governor.
Donald Trump’s campaign believes Ron DeSantis is flatlining. Now, they want to bury him.
on the trail. And it’s being supplemented with an air attack by Trump world as a pro-DeSantis PAC advertises aggressively in the state. MAGA Inc., the super PAC supporting Trump, is spending over $700,000 on advertising this week in Iowa, according to the ad tracking firm AdImpact. Trump’s Iowa team is focused on educating and training Trump supporters on the caucus process, and the Trump campaign has boasted of 27,500 signed caucus pledge cards and 1,500 local volunteers in the state.
“If you look historically when the race starts coming together, and trajectory and momentum and those kinds of things really start to matter, it is after Labor Day, after school has started. That’s when you saw previous insurgent campaigns really starting to get traction like Huckabee, Santorum, etc.,” said veteran Iowa Republican operative Nicole Schlinger.
And the PAC that is all but running the Florida governor’s campaign has bought $15.6 million worth of ads in the state through November, according to AdImpact — more than triple the $2.9 million the MAGA Inc. PAC supporting Trump has spent. While DeSantis has been careful not to antagonize Trump’s supporters, he and his team have begun to question the former president’s Iowa operation. During a Fox News interview last week, DeSantis expressed skepticism about the yawning gap in polls between him and Trump, and questioned Trump’s operation in the Hawkeye State.
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