At the obligatory campaign stop, Trump showed he isn’t running for president like the rest of the GOP field; he’s running as president.
It’s been a bumpy ride for Ron DeSantis as he chases Trump on the campaign trail.Political people in Iowa love their rituals, and that’s truer than ever among Iowa Republicans now that their party is the only major party holding first-in-the-nation caucuses. The high altar of Iowa political rituals is the, held in the August preceding a competitive presidential-nomination contest, and there are many obligatory moments for the presidential candidates, who are as thick on the ground as ants.
Actually, all but one of them are going along with Reynolds’s event and the other solemn set pieces. While his rivals are all running for president,president, distancing himself from the mere senators, governors, and very wealthy former tech entrepreneurs in the field and attending the fair like a sovereign with a fixed, limited schedule.
To some extent, his elevated position is beyond his control: As a former president, he is under the protection and guidance of the Secret Service, which isn’t going to give direct access to the famously germophobic Trump to every random child holding a corn dog in one hand and a cell-phone camera in the other. But the royal treatment also meshes nicely with the 2024 front-runner’s self-presentation as a great white shark among minnows.
Not all of them could squeeze into the restaurant, so they filled the street outside, one giant blob of eager, sweating Iowans. When the former president finally appeared, the scrum was so dense that they could barely make out his silhouette through the restaurant’s open side. “You know, the other candidates came here, and they had like six people,” Trump’s giddy voice said through the speakers above us. The audience responded with hoots and cheers.
The candidate with the most to win or lose at the fair — and in Iowa generally — however, had tougher sledding. It’s increasingly clear that Florida governor
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