It has traditionally been the first state to hold its presidential nominating contest, making Iowa a critical early benchmark of success.
It’s just before lunchtime in Iowa – the midwest state that kicks off the US presidential cycle – and Stephanie Becker is at the local fair with her two children when she spots a familiar face., one of 13 Republican challengers hoping to beat Donald Trump for the party’s presidential nomination next year.
His latest whirlwind trip took place on Saturday at the Iowa State Fair – a political rite of passage where candidates try to impress unpredictable voters, navigate their way through animal pavilions and endless food stalls, and deliver stump speeches that appeal to the region’s predominantly white and religious working-class masses.In 2015, Trump, then a reality TV star who had set his sights on the highest office in America, arrived at the fair in his helicopter.
“We need somebody to just change the direction we’re going in financially,” she tells me, the day after Trump was indicted over election subversion in Georgia. Dressed in a cowboy hat and green shirt, the cattle farmer and self-described “hillbilly” says Trump remains in his top three Republican picks for president: the other two being Scott and “that Indian fellow” – a reference to entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who impressed the audience at the fair last week with a performance of Eminem’sBut like many other conservatives, Driscoll fears Trump is his own worst enemy, which he believes won’t bode well if he ends up in court to fight the four cases...
“He causes too much turmoil and he just bad-mouths people,” said one woman from the state capital of Des Moines. There are now four: alleged hush money paid to a porn star; claims that he mishandled classified documents; an alleged plot to stop Biden becoming president; and an alleged racketeering scheme to subvert the presidential election results in Georgia./Siena College poll released this month, 44 per cent of Republican voters in Iowa say they would choose Trump as their Republican nominee, followed by DeSantis at 20 per cent.
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