"A win in Iowa, a second in New Hampshire, we lose a couple candidates before Nevada and South Carolina, and then we are in a bloody, two-person race," one of the two sources told Reuters, referring to other nominating contests that will follow. Florida Governor Ron Desantis speaks duri...
Governor Reynolds spent much of the last two months campaigning for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and starred in a tv ad on his behalf. Yet her backing didn’t move the needle; polls showed support for DeSantis between the mid-teens and low 20s in Iowa for the last six months. As expec...
Biden, the incumbent Democrat, faces little outward resistance from his own party as he seeks its nomination for president. His biggest Democratic challenger in the primary, Rep. Dean Philips of Minnesota, is mounting a long-shot campaign that his little chance of impacting the race. —Kevin Br...
Iowa Democrats respond to Biden dropping out of 2024 election Tom Barton,Erin Murphy,Caleb McCullough, Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau Government & PoliticsJul. 22, 2024 1:50 pm Iowa Democrats on Sunday applauded President Joe Biden’s decision to bow out of the presidential race, after weeks of...
Despite A Huge Lead In The Polls Trump Says The Race Isn't Over Till It's Really Over! Despite polls painting a rosy picture of his lead in the upcoming Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump is refusing to declare victory early, insisting the race remains wide open. Campaigning acro...
A spokesperson for the DeSantis campaign tried to tamp down expectations for the Florida governor, selling him as the "underdog" against Donald Trump and Nikki Haley. "I think when you think about the expectations of this race, they are sky high for Donald Trump and they are sky high for...
Supporters of the governor and GOP strategists say Iowa is not a "must win" for DeSantis' broader prospects, but they still say that at the very least, DeSantis must come within ten points of Trump in Iowa to continue to have a viable path for the GOP nomination. ...
With Trump's victory seemingly a foregone conclusion before Monday given his sizable lead in opinion polls, the intrigue centered on the race for second place between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. The two candidate...
Other DeSantis allies say voters and the media need to face the prospect that the Florida governor will stay in the race beyond Iowa no matter how things go tonight. New Hampshire Majority Leader Jason Osborne, an early DeSantis endorser, said he was irritated about the narrative that DeSanti...
But this year’s survey has merely reinforced what has been the defining feature of the race: its remarkable stability. In the four polls conducted by Selzer & Company for the paper and its two co-sponsors, Trump’s support has ranged between 42 and 51 percent, and his lead has never dr...