Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, expected to soon launch a 2024 exploratory committee, was in Iowa Saturday pitching a 'positive alternative' to Republican voters while former President Donald Trump's planned event was canceled due to weather.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a fundraising picnic for U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Sioux Center, Iowa., was in Iowa Saturday pitching a "positive alternative" to Republican voters while former President Donald Trump's planned event was canceled due to weather.
"If we make the 2024 election a referendum on Joe Biden and his failures, and if we provide a positive alternative for the future of this country, Republicans will win across the board," DeSantis said as he spoke to a crowd of roughly 400 to 500 people. "If we do not do that, if we get distracted, if we focus the election on the past or on other side issues, then I think the Democrats are going to beat us again.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis greets audience members during a fundraising picnic for U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Sioux Center, Iowa."There's a civil war in the Republican Party coming, and it's coming quicker than everybody thinks, and Iowa is ground zero for that," said Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor who previously fundraised for Trump but is now supporting DeSantis.
DeSantis is not the first potential 2024 contender to be invited to the Iowa congressman's Family Picnic. In the spring of 2021, former Vice President Mike Pence, fresh off the White House, became the first special guest at the first Feenstra annual picnic, and last year, Trump's former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley -- herself now a 2024 hopeful -- joined the Feenstra picnic as she was mulling a presidential run.
Even without DeSantis' candidacy, Never Back Down has raised $30 million from donors seeking an alternative Republican to Trump since March, and last month, the super PAC launched seven-figure ad campaigns in four early voting states pitching DeSantis is the new leader of the GOP, as previously reported by ABC News.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.Trump could prove difficult to defeat if the field remains extremely crowded, with candidates dividing the anti-Trump vote, the Iowa politico said.
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