Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis battled for the support of Iowa Republicans at campaign stops Saturday, just 100 days before the January caucuses in the Hawkeye State.
At a Waterloo rally, his third stop in Iowa in just over two weeks, Trump spoke to more than 1,700 rallygoers to bolster his support in January, while hundreds more waited outside.
“We have to win more than ever before, because our country is going to hell,” the former president said. “We have to stop it.”
The former president criticized President Joe Biden as responsible for Hamas’ bloody attack on Israel on Saturday because of the weakness the commander in chief has shown on the world stage.
“The Israeli attack happened because we are perceived as weak and ineffective, as if this were a really weak leader,” he said.
Trump encouraged Iowa Republicans to vote for him in the caucuses “because our country is going to hell.”
Trump also lashed out at New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office is pursuing a $250 million civil fraud case against him, calling her “grossly incompetent” and “an evil person.”
Meanwhile, DeSantis spoke to a crowd in Ankeny at one of three campaign stops in the nation’s first state on Saturday, where he vowed to “use deadly force” to crack down on Mexican drug cartels bringing drugs into the United States. Joined. and improve mental health services for veterans.
“Our children are being murdered by the Mexican drug cartels and by the [Chinese Communist Party] who is providing the chemical precursors,” he said.
DeSantis vowed to use lethal force to take down Mexican drug cartels. Twitter
The Republican presidential hopeful, who recently moved about a third of his staff from Florida to Iowa to focus his efforts on undermining Trump’s leadership in the state, also took the opportunity to criticize his main party rival for reneging on his promise to 2016 campaign to keep Mexico. with the bill by erecting a border wall.
“That was not a promise kept, but you can actually get Mexico to pay if you know how to use your authority,” he said, suggesting he could impose tariffs on money that people in the United States send to families in Central America. .
“Billions of dollars would be raised and the wall from sea to sea could be financed,” he added.
“Not only will I keep my promises as president, I will keep Donald Trump’s promises that he didn’t keep.”
The 77-year-old former president dominates the field in the GOP’s flagship state, leading DeSantis, 45, with a 33.2 percentage point lead over DeSantis, according to the latest aggregate from RealClearPolitics.
With mail cables.
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