Amid layoffs and declining poll numbers, the Florida governor sticks to familiar themes on the trail in Iowa.
“Could you just, without putting anybody else down really, tell me two or three things about you that would make me want to choose you over, I think, a really good list of Republican candidates?” the voter, Kathy Kooiker, said.
In an interview afterward, Kooiker said she liked DeSantis’s answer but remained undecided. “We got very used to the entertainment level of Trump, when you agreed with him a lot, he was very funny,” she said. “I don’t feel DeSantis was grabbing my attention that way. Probably Mr. DeSantis personally doesn’t appear really gregarious. We don’t need an entertainer in the White House really.”
“It’s clear the national media has already pre-written Ron DeSantis’ political obituary — just like they did in 2018, during the pandemic, and numerous other times he defied their flawed narrative,” DeSantis spokesperson Andrew Romeo said in a statement Friday. “The media, national polling, nor the political class decide who the Republican nominee is — voters do, and they’re excited about Ron DeSantis’ candidacy and his vision for the Great American Comeback.
Trump has made DeSantis nearly the sole focus of his attacks on the campaign trail. In a radio interview with right-wing host John Fredericks on Friday, he went so far as to suggest that the Florida governor get out of the race for the “good of the party,” predicting that DeSantis would be “superseded by somebody else.”
During a donor retreat in Park City, Utah, campaign manager Generra Peck told attendees that the campaign had spent too much of the money it had raised but that it was changing course, according to one DeSantis supporter. Romeo pointed to an earlier statement that said the campaign is “nothing but grateful for groups like Never Back Down that are also working to support this mission.”
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