Tag: Iowa Caucuses

Vivek Ramaswamy Stands Firm On Jan 6. Conspiracy Theories
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Vivek Ramaswamy Stands Firm On Jan 6. Conspiracy Theories

At a live CNN town hall on Wednesday evening, Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur seeking the Republican presidential nomination, stood by his recent comments suggesting that the U.S. Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, was an “inside job” that the federal government had an active role in fomenting.CNN’s Abby Philip, who moderated the town hall at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, asked Ramaswamy how he felt about one of the Jan. 6 defendants accused of violence using Ramaswamy’s words about Jan. 6 at his sentencing the following day. Ramaswamy had made waves at the Dec. 6 GOP debate by declaring that he was the only person onstage willing to admit that “Jan. 6 now does look like an inside job.”“If you had told me [three years ago] that January 6 was in any way an inside job, the...
Iowa GOP Drops Blunt Fact Check On Casey DeSantis’ Wild Claim About Caucuses
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Iowa GOP Drops Blunt Fact Check On Casey DeSantis’ Wild Claim About Caucuses

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Why Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Have a Prayer in Iowa
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Why Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Have a Prayer in Iowa

Those social conservatives had won big legislative margins in the 2022 midterms that had gone against Republicans in other states, and they had used their majority to pass a “fetal heartbeat” bill, outlawing most abortions after around six weeks, which in effect comes close to an outright ban. DeSantis had signed a nearly identical bill in Florida; Trump has criticized these measures as too extreme, saying they would backfire on Republicans. So the true believers in Iowa had a substantive reason to turn away from the former President, too.It was a highly self-selecting crowd at the Thunderdome—people willing to spend a couple of hours of their Saturday at a DeSantis campaign event—but, as I walked around chatting, I did get the impression that the fetal-heartbeat contretemps had given som...
Some Republicans Worry Donald Trump May Be Unstoppable
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Some Republicans Worry Donald Trump May Be Unstoppable

NEW YORK (AP) — He’s been indicted twice. Found liable for sexual abuse. And he’s viewed unfavorably by about a third of his party. But six months before Republicans begin to choose their next presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump remains the race’s dominant front-runner.Early leaders don’t always go on to win their party’s nomination, but a growing sense of Trump’s inevitability is raising alarms among some Republicans desperate for the party to move on. Some described a sense of panic — or “DEFCON 1,” as one put it — as they scramble to try to derail Trump and change the trajectory of the race. But there’s no clear plan or strategy on how to do that and Trump’s detractors aren’t rallying around a single alternative candidate yet.“They’re very concerned,” former Maryland Go...
Iowa GOP Schedules Jan. 15 For Leadoff Presidential Caucuses. It’s On Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Iowa GOP Schedules Jan. 15 For Leadoff Presidential Caucuses. It’s On Martin Luther King Jr. Day

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Republicans announced Saturday that the party’s presidential nominating caucuses will be held Jan. 15, on the federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., putting the first votes of the 2024 election a little more than six months away as the GOP tries to reclaim the White House.White House candidates have campaigned in Iowa since last winter, but there has been some uncertainty about the date for the caucuses that have by tradition kicked off the Republican selection process for a nominee. What's changed is the Democratic National Committee’s election calendar, dropping Iowa as its first contest.The Iowa Republican Party’s state central committee voted unanimously for the third Monday in January — a date that is earlier by several weeks than the past three...