“Iowa may be the most important state on Donald Trump’s early 2024 political calendar, but he hasn’t been making many friends there lately,” the New York Times reports.
“He lashed out at Iowa’s popular Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, and then his campaign informed one of the state’s politically influential evangelical leaders, Bob Vander Plaats, that the former president would skip a gathering of presidential candidates this week in Des Moines.”
“The back-to-back moves on Monday — which the campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida labeled a ‘snub of Iowa conservatives’ in an email on Tuesday — show the extent to which Mr. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, acts as if he is immune to traditional political pitfalls while he is also under indictment and his rivals are seeking to capitalize on some voters’ fatigue with his antics.”
