Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis makes presidential campaign debut in Iowa, calling for 'American comeback' from Pres. Biden.
began Tuesday night with a speech in Clive at the Eternity Church. Before that, he and wife Casey met with "15 local pastors who will be praying over the family and the Governor's candidacy," a spokesperson said.
More broadly, pointing to some of his familiar targets, he attacked "elites" -- who had "continued to plunge this nation into the abyss" -- and "woke ideology," which he said unfairly singled out conservatives for unequal treatment."if Hunter were a Republican, he would have been in jail years ago," DeSantis said to loud applause from the crowd, referring to the president's younger son, who is currently under federal investigation.
"I've been around him and I think he connects very well with people one-on-one," Vander Plaats insisted. "But I think his message is [that] he's got a lot of results to communicate." Although Tuesday marked the first day DeSantis visited Iowa as a presidential candidate, it was the third time he has been to the state since the beginning of the year.
Notably, on the day that Trump canceled his Des Moines rally, DeSantis made a surprise appearance in the city instead -- and seemed to jab at Trump during his speech Tuesday night when he said of that impromptu event, "The weather was so nice that we felt we just had to come back and pay everyone a bit of a visit."
In recent days, DeSantis has ramped up his own criticism of the former president, invoking his 20-point reelection win in November -- an enormous margin of victory in a famous swing state.
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