Tag: DeSantis, Ron

Ron DeSantis Drops Out of 2024 Presidential Race and Endorses Trump

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida suspended his campaign for president on Sunday and endorsed former President Donald J. Trump, marking a spectacular implosion for a candidate once seen as having the best chance to dethrone Mr. Trump as the Republican Party’s nominee in 2024. His departure from the race just two days before the New […]

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Why Nikki Haley Could Be the Most Dangerous President

In the alternate timeline where Ron DeSantis proved to be a capable campaigner and looked poised to defeat Donald Trump in New Hampshire and beyond, we would be facing a multitude of left-leaning essays on a single theme: “Why DeSantis is actually more dangerous than Trump.” In this world, the only threat to Trump in […]

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DeSantis Quietly Starts Building His Off-Ramp From 2024 Race

After a humbling loss in Iowa, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is starting to signal that he is building an off-ramp from the race for the Republican presidential nomination, a seeming acknowledgment of his dim prospects of defeating Donald J. Trump given his low poll numbers in New Hampshire and South Carolina. So far this […]

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Why Wasn’t DeSantis the Guy?

Right before the blizzard conditions hit Iowa ahead of the caucus, in a barbecue place with arcade games and waiters in red T-shirts weaving through reporters with beers and baskets of fried food, Ron DeSantis came onstage, as he does, to Poison’s “Nothin’ but a Good Time.” This is a fratty song, and the vibe […]

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Ron DeSantis and Fox News, Old Friends, Hit Turbulence

When the Fox News host Laura Ingraham urged Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida “to step aside and endorse Trump” on Tuesday night, it was the latest sign of a sharp deterioration of relations between the Republican presidential hopeful and the network that made him a star. Ms. Ingraham’s exhortation, in the wake of Mr. DeSantis’s […]

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The G.O.P.’s ‘Nasty’ New Religion

We’ve spent the past few days deconstructing what happened at the Iowa caucuses. I’m still stuck on what happened before: We saw just how faithfully the Republican Party now worships at the church of nasty. Just how fully it genuflects before the great god of nastiness, Donald Trump. I don’t mean by supporting and voting […]

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Eyeing Super Tuesday, Trump Is Eager to Dispatch Rivals Sooner Than Later

With five days left until the New Hampshire primary, Donald J. Trump and his allies are stepping up their efforts to muscle Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis out of the Republican presidential race by casting Mr. Trump’s nomination as inevitable. The strategy reflects an urgent desire to end the race quickly and avoid an extended […]

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Iowa Caucus Recap: Trump’s Win, the Weather, and a Look Toward New Hampshire

Going into the Iowa caucuses, there were a handful of key things we were watching for: Would the frigid weather hamper turnout? Would his overwhelming dominance in the polls translate to a decisive victory for Donald Trump? And finally, could the other candidates muster enough of a showing to keep the race alive? Today: Through […]

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Take That, America

Well, people, Iowa has spoken. Peeped, anyhow. Every time the nation gets to select its next president, all eyes turn to Iowa, which traditionally has the first word on what the public wants. This is a state with approximately 1 percent of the national population. How could we not pay attention? Next week, we’ll be […]

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Do Political Ads Even Matter Anymore?

In a presidential election year, no glowing rectangle in Iowa or New Hampshire is safe from an endless deluge of political ads. Campaign ads are inescapable on the nightly news, “Wheel of Fortune” and YouTube. Even the high-dollar, high-visibility ad blocks of professional and college football games have become increasingly saturated. It’s a deeply entrenched […]

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Shake-Up by a Desperate DeSantis Opens Wider Path for Haley in New Hampshire

Straining to recover after a bruising defeat in Iowa, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and his allies moved on Wednesday to shake up his operation yet again, with his super PAC carrying out layoffs and the campaign signaling that it would largely bypass New Hampshire’s primary election next week in favor of competing in South […]

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Why New Hampshire Thinks It’s Smarter Than Iowa

Now that the Republican presidential primary race has moved to New Hampshire from Iowa, a few things will change. The evangelical Christian social conservatism that dominates Iowa’s Republican politics is out, replaced by fiscal hawkishness and a libertarian streak rooted in the Granite State’s “Live Free or Die” ethos. With Iowa fully in the rearview […]

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Even if Nikki Haley Shocks Trump in New Hampshire, It Won’t Matter

Nikki Haley did well enough in the Iowa caucuses Monday night to keep her supporters’ hopes alive. But her third-place showing, on the heels of Ron DeSantis and a mile behind Donald Trump, was also just disappointing enough to raise doubts about her candidacy. Her plan coming out of Iowa is a classic underdog strategy: […]

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Trump’s Landslide Victory in Iowa

To the Editor: Re “Trump Wins Iowa in Key First Step Toward Rematch” (front page, Jan. 16): If you weren’t scared before Monday night’s Iowa caucuses, you should be terrified now. The disgraced, twice-impeached, quadruple-indicted former president came within one vote of winning all 99 of Iowa’s counties, and received 51 percent of the vote. […]

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Even the Battle for Second Turned Out Well for Trump in Iowa

If there was any question whether Donald J. Trump was on track to win the Republican nomination, it was answered Monday night by the voters of Iowa. The first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses delivered him a sweeping victory, offering the most concrete proof yet of his dominance over the Republican Party. With nearly all the votes counted, […]

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The Most Durable Force in American Politics: Trump’s Ties to His Voters

Bill Clinton once explained the nation’s two political parties by saying that Democrats want to fall in love while Republicans want to fall in line. That adage has not withstood the Trump era. Today, it is Republicans who are besotted. Donald J. Trump’s decisive victory in Iowa revealed a new depth to the reservoir of […]

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Takeaways From the Iowa Caucuses: Trump’s Runaway Victory and More

After nearly a year of campaigning, more than $123 million in advertising and an inglorious, frozen-over finish, the Iowa caucuses ended much as the race began: Donald J. Trump, the dominant front-runner, was declared the winner before most of the votes had even been cast. Mr. Trump’s overwhelming victory again demonstrated his enduring command of […]

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DeSantis’s Iowa Letdown: A Distant Second Place Behind Trump

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida may have done just enough in the Iowa caucuses on Monday night to argue that he still belongs in the race to defeat Donald J. Trump for the Republican presidential nomination. But his distant second-place finish had all the feelings of a disaster, given how much time and money he […]

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Donald Trump Wins the Iowa GOP Caucuses

Donald J. Trump won the Iowa caucuses in a landslide on Monday, a crucial first step in his bid to reclaim the Republican nomination for the third consecutive election as voters looked past his mounting legal jeopardy and embraced his vision of vengeful disruption. Mr. Trump’s record-breaking triumph, called by The Associated Press on Monday […]

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Iowa Pandering Has Been Scarce in This Unusual Republican Primary

Campaigning in Iowa in the months leading up to the caucuses has traditionally involved candidates embracing local customs, visiting iconic locations and championing policies aimed at helping the state’s farm-driven economy. But this year, the Republicans seeking their party’s presidential nomination have largely avoided over-the-top pandering to local priorities — and any such attempts appear […]

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Three Questions About Iowa

So far, the 2024 presidential campaign looks to be the least competitive in decades. The incumbent president is likely to win the Democratic nomination easily, while a former president seems to be running away with the Republican nomination. Of course, this conclusion is based only on opinion polls, rather than actual voting. By tonight, however, […]

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A Big Reason to Pay Attention to Iowa? New Hampshire.

The long road to the Republican presidential nomination begins tonight in Iowa, where voters will gather at their neighborhood precinct caucuses to cast the first votes of the 2024 election campaign. Iowa may not have many voters or delegates, but the first-in-the-nation caucuses always attract a media frenzy. With the help of the national spotlight, […]

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Campaigns Battle Cold and Complacency in Final Turnout Push in Iowa

Nikki Haley’s team predicts Iowans will brave brutal weather to caucus for her. Aides to Ron DeSantis say the subzero temperatures give their candidate an edge because he has the biggest team knocking on doors. And the Trump team says they don’t worry about the cold — former President Donald J. Trump’s supporters will “walk […]

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The Guide to Iowa via ‘The Run-Up’

Listen to and follow ‘The Run-Up’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Hosted by Astead W. Herndon Produced by Anna Foley Reporting from Davenport, Iowa, and Des Moines Finally. More than a year after Donald Trump first announced his 2024 presidential run, six months after Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida refocused his campaign strategy to be […]

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Iowa Caucuses Today: What to Watch For

The coldest Iowa caucuses in history arrive Monday night amid expectations that Republicans in the state will put former President Donald J. Trump on the march to a third G.O.P. presidential nomination. The battle for second place, hard-fought between Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, will anoint […]

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The Iowa Caucuses Are Not a Delightful Game

Ah, the Iowa caucuses. So much drama. So much antici … pation. So much money and energy spent on an antidemocratic process in a state with a pretty dismal track record of picking presidential nominees. And yet! Just because the system is flawed doesn’t mean the stakes aren’t real — and brutal. The outcome of […]

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Republican Presidential Primary: 7 Numbers That Tell the Story

The only numbers that will truly matter in the Iowa caucuses on Monday will be the number of votes tallied for Donald J. Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy. But there are a number of, well, numbers that help explain the Republican nominating contest. In most polls, Mr. Trump holds a solid lead, […]

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Trump Far Ahead, With Haley Edging DeSantis for Second, Key Iowa Poll Finds

Donald J. Trump has the backing of 48 percent of likely caucusgoers ahead of Monday’s election, a commanding lead for the former president, according to the Iowa Poll by The Des Moines Register, NBC News and Mediacom. Nikki Haley is narrowly leading the battle for second place over Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, 20 percent […]

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In Iowa, Nikki Haley Has the Attention of Democrats and Independents

With temperatures threatening to dip below zero in Iowa on Monday, some of the voters preparing to caucus for Nikki Haley have already overcome a different hurdle: a long history of voting for Democrats. At recent campaign events across Iowa, a number of Democrats and left-leaning independents said they saw Ms. Haley, the former governor […]

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The DeSantis Campaign Is Revealing What Republican Voters Really Want

If Ron DeSantis surprises in Iowa and beyond, if he recovers from his long polling swoon and wins the Republican nomination, it will represent the triumph of a simple, intuitive, but possibly mistaken idea: That voters should be taken at their word about what they actually want from their leaders. It was always clear, going […]

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Ahead of Iowa Caucuses, Voters Fear the Prospect of Civil Unrest

Presidential elections traditionally speak to future aspirations, offering a vision of a better tomorrow, the hope and change of Barack Obama or the compassionate conservatism of George W. Bush. Yet this year, even before a single vote has been cast, a far darker sentiment has taken hold. Across Iowa, as the first nominating contest approaches […]

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