Common sense suggests Republican presidential candidates would try to impress party leaders in Iowa. As stevebenen writes, Donald Trump is trying to bully them into submission instead.
In every presidential race, leading contenders go out of their way to impress and flatter their party’s leading officials in Iowa. There’s no great mystery about the strategy: Iowa has been home to the first presidential nominating contest in both parties for several decades, and those who hope to compete seek out the support of the Hawkeye State’s most powerful voices.
Take Sen. Joni Ernst, for example. The Republican lawmaker recently hosted a “Roast and Ride” event, which the former president skipped. The New York Times, however, that Trump’s campaign nevertheless expressed an interest in sending pre-recorded remarks, leading Ernst’s team to rent large screens to show attendees the former president’s comments.
But while the former president has failed to earn his way into Ernst’s good graces, his conflicts with Iowa’s GOP governor are even less subtle. NBC NewsFormer President Donald Trump denounced Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday for declining to endorse a candidate in the still nascent GOP primary. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump suggested that Reynolds is tacitly supporting former Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the primary, even as she remains nominally neutral.
But yesterday on his social media platform, he went much further, apparently trying to bully the governor into submission.
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