{"id":1927083,"date":"2023-05-09T04:56:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T08:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-and-desantis-to-hold-competing-iowa-events-on-same-day\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T04:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T08:59:19","slug":"trump-and-desantis-to-hold-competing-iowa-events-on-same-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-and-desantis-to-hold-competing-iowa-events-on-same-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and DeSantis to host rival events in Iowa on same day."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-and-desantis-to-hold-competing-iowa-events-on-same-day%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1927083&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Get Ready for the Battle of Iowa: Trump vs. DeSantis<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 Iowa GOP caucus is heating up as two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-and-desantis-to-hold-competing-iowa-events-on-same-day\/\" title=\"Trump and DeSantis to host rival events in Iowa on same day.\">potential frontrunners gear<\/a> up for a showdown in the Hawkeye State. Former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis are set to hold competing events on May 13th, and the excitement is palpable.<\/p>\n<p>Trump will be hosting a \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d rally at the Lauridsen Amphitheater in Des Moines, the state\u2019s capital. In a recent Truth Social post, he declared, \u201cI did more for Iowa than anyone else in history\u2014and will again!\u201d The event kicks off at 2 p.m., with Trump scheduled to speak at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, DeSantis will be appearing at Rep. Randy Feenstra\u2019s Iowa Family Picnic in Sioux Center, in the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remembering-events-of-9-11-20-years-later\/\" title=\"Remembering events of 9\/11, 20 years later\">northwest corner<\/a>. He\u2019ll also be speaking at an evening fundraiser for the Republican Party of Iowa in Cedar Rapids, almost three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miranda-devine-smirking-old-joe-bidens-looming-ron-desantis-woe\/\" title=\"Miranda Devine: Smirking Old Joe Biden\u2019s Looming Ron Desantis Woe\">hundred miles east<\/a> of Sioux Center.<\/p>\n<p>Both candidates are expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-ron-desantis-blasts-anthony-fauci-in-surprise-visit-to-music-festival-fans-go-wild\/\" title=\"WATCH: Ron DeSantis Blasts Anthony Fauci In Surprise Visit To Music Festival, Fans Go Wild\">draw large crowds<\/a>, and the stakes are high. Trump declared his candidacy in November 2022, while DeSantis is expected to announce his bid in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-ga-voter-turnout-low-on-election-day\/\" title=\"Report: Ga. voter turnout low on election day\">coming days<\/a> or weeks. He\u2019s been touring early caucus and primary states, including Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, and has even traveled internationally to Israel and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The battle for Iowa is just the beginning, as the Democratic Party has revised its caucus and primary schedule for 2024, making South Carolina its first-in-the-nation contest. But for now, all eyes are on Iowa, where Trump and DeSantis will be talking past each other from across the state. Who will come out on top? Only time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2024\u2019s Iowa GOP caucus slowly approaches, two likely frontrunners are preparing to talk past each other from across the Hawkeye State. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump will hold competing events on May 13 in Iowa. Trump will hold a \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d rally at Lauridsen Amphitheater, Water Works Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":1927084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[7660,4980,7500,4863,5626,8671,3634],"class_list":["post-1927083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-day","tag-desantis","tag-events","tag-host","tag-iowa","tag-rival","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}