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Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis ® has claimed that some Donald Trump-endorsing Republicans have told him in private that they’ll actually vote for him instead of the former president in the GOP primary.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — One year after leading the polls for the Republican presidential nomination, Ron DeSantis is just hours away from his moment of truth.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) wants voters to know he likes being the “underdog.”
Latest news from the 2024 presidential campaigns ahead of Iowa caucusesWith just a day to go before the Iowa caucuses, the candidates are braving subzero weather to deliver their closing arguments to caucusgoers.North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a former Republican presidential candidate, endorsed Donald Trump at the former president’s rally. Marco Rubio's endorsement soon followed.Meanwhile, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who has declined to endorse a candidate a day before the caucuses, said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that she would not rule out backing Trump if he wins in the state, but she also called former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley “a great candidate.” Later, at a campaign event, she called Haley a "dear friend" and "inspiring leader." Trump has a nearly 30-point lead in the final NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll before the caucuses. Meanwhile, Haley is narrowly ahead of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, with 20% to his 16%.While the majority of likely GOP caucusgoers say they would vote for Trump in the general election if he’s the nominee, regardless of whomever they support on caucus night, nearly half of Haley’s supporters say they would vote for Democratic President Joe Biden over Trump in a general election matchup.
One day before the Iowa caucuses, Nikki Haley addressed an energized crowd at a barbecue restaurant in Ames, just a few miles from Iowa State University. Despite the freezing temperatures, the room was filled to capacity with campaign volunteers, journalists and a few undecided caucus-goers.
Asa Hutchinson spent Friday night at a rodeo in Des Moines, watching cowboys ride broncos while holding on for dear life. “You have to only hold on to the horse with one hand and so you’ve always got to be keeping the other hand up, and you’ve got to do that for eight seconds with that bronco bucking like crazy,” Hutchinson explains. “One of them decided to preserve themselves and so grabbed hold with two hands. They’re disqualified.”
Amid a campaign that has, from its very first minutes, not gone quite as planned, Ron DeSantis took the stage on Saturday before a crowd of supporters in an Iowa office complex to inform them that the latest obstacle – a historically frigid winter storm – would not stop him from winning the first state to vote in the Republican presidential nomination process.
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has endorsed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for the GOP presidential nomination, shutting down rumors the anti-Trump Republican would make a third-party run for the office himself.