A veteran of many Iowa Republican presidential campaigns says Gov. Ron DeSantis is a zombie candidate in the state.
La Dépêche reported:
The governor recently gained the coveted endorsement of Gov. Kim Reynolds and leading evangelical activist Bob Vander Plaats – as powerful a political duo as there is in Iowa. And the 21st century is littered with underdog candidates who came late to win the Republican presidential nominating caucuses over presumed frontrunners. Still, neutral Republican operatives in Iowa doubt DeSantis can repeat the recent past.
“They were lucky to have Reynolds and (Vander Plaats) but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s a bad candidate who underperformed,” said Republican strategist David Kochel, a veteran of several campaigns of the Iowa caucus which is not supporting any candidate this year. the weather. “I think he’s a zombie candidate at this point. …I just don’t see his way anymore.
It was a sign that DeSantis was dead in the water that he went on Fox News to debate Gov. Gavin Newsom just weeks before the Iowa caucuses. Candidates vying for the presidential nomination generally don’t waste time debating someone who isn’t running for office.
The DeSantis campaign moved most of its staff to Iowa, but there is no evidence that the move worked one way or another. DeSantis is now behind Nikki Haley for second place in the Republican primary field, and Haley or DeSantis are not within earshot. Asset.
Rarely has a presidential campaign with so many resources and such a spectacular failure failed, but that is exactly what is happening. Ron DeSantis did.
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