The crowd cheered. The pork was charred. And then someone shouted at former President Donald J. Trump, asking him to identify his biggest challenger in the 2024 Republican primary. “Don’t see him,” Mr. Trump replied. Mr. Trump signaled that he was looking past his leading rival, Ron DeSantis, on Saturday, as the two candidates converged…
The Scene Did you hear? There was a mass gathering of Republican 2024 hopefuls in Iowa on Sunday — near Cedar Rapids, amid the midsummer seas of ripening cornstalks and the darker hues of rows of soybeans. This was after a Republican Party fund-raising dinner in Des Moines nine days earlier, and just before the…
Former President Donald J. Trump’s pull among likely Republican voters is less dominant in Iowa than it is nationwide, though he still leads his nearest rival, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, in the key early state by double digits, according to a new New York Times/Siena College poll. The survey of 432 likely Iowa caucusgoers…
When former President Donald J. Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida shared the same stage at an Iowa Republican Party dinner on Friday, their appearances seemed to capture the basic dynamics of the 2024 presidential primary. Mr. Trump played headliner. Mr. DeSantis was reduced to an opening act. Even as Mr. Trump has been…
Candidate after candidate at an Iowa Republican dinner on Friday avoided so much as mentioning the dominant front-runner in the race, former President Donald J. Trump. But when Mr. Trump took the stage after more than two hours of speeches by his lower-polling rivals, it took him less than three minutes to unleash his first…
Why It Matters: Republicans Reaffirm While Democrats Reorder Republican presidential hopefuls have been campaigning aggressively in the state, which is seen as crucial to many candidates, including former President Donald J. Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, former Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, all of whom are courting the…
She was there to woo the conservative moms of Iowa. So Casey DeSantis, the wife of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, wasted no time in talking about her three young children — and how badly she wanted to leave them home. “It’s funny, somebody outside by the snowball machine was asking, ‘Did you bring your…
As the politicians and Republican Party officials tossed out the red meat on Saturday at an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, Wayne Johnson, a 70-year-old farmer and financial consultant from Forest City, Iowa, had some quieter thoughts about the next president he would like to see. The violence in American schools and public places,…
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida rallied supporters at a kickoff event in Iowa on Tuesday as he began a three-state, 12-city tour to start his presidential campaign, aiming to win over Republicans in a socially conservative state where he is banking on a strong showing against former President Donald J. Trump. “Restoring sanity means we…
Plans were underway to demolish a six-story apartment building that partially collapsed in Iowa over the weekend, officials said, after at least nine people were pulled from the damaged structure. More than a dozen people were initially escorted out of the building when it collapsed in Davenport, in eastern Iowa, on Sunday afternoon, and eight…