{"id":1979665,"date":"2023-07-21T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-closes-in-on-ron-desantis-in-iowa\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T19:47:10","slug":"tim-scott-closes-in-on-ron-desantis-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-closes-in-on-ron-desantis-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Scott narrows gap with Ron DeSantis in Iowa."},"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\">18<\/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%2Ftim-scott-closes-in-on-ron-desantis-in-iowa%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=1979665&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--><h2>Sen. Tim Scott Gaining Ground\u2062 in Iowa Poll<\/h2>\n<p>According to a\u2064 new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ossoff-warnock-take-lead-in-new-georgia-senate-runoff-poll-by-trafalgar-group\/\" title=\"Ossoff, Warnock Take Lead in New Georgia Senate Runoff Poll by Trafalgar Group\">poll released<\/a> by Co\/efficient and paid for by the Trump campaign, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is now polling in \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/support-for-trump-hater-liz-cheney-drops-like-a-rock-in-wyoming-only-13-would-vote-to-reelect-darling-of-gop-elites\/\" title=\"Support for Trump-Hater Liz Cheney Drops Like a Rock in Wyoming \u2013 Only 13% Would Vote to Reelect Darling of GOP Elites\">double digits<\/a> in\u200c the state of Iowa. The survey shows Scott at 10%, putting him in a strong position and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-and-hagerty-land-in-israel-to-assess-damage-from-hamas-war\/\" title=\"Cruz and Hagerty Land in Israel to Assess Damage from Hamas War\">gaining ground<\/a> on Gov. \u2062Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who came\u2062 in second at 16%.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Scott&#8217;s \u2062rise,\u200b former President Donald\u2062 Trump remains \u2064the frontrunner\u2064 with\u200b 46% of likely GOP caucus participants in Iowa\u2062 supporting him. Trump&#8217;s lead is significant, even after his recent clash \u200bwith Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA) for \u2063remaining neutral in the 2024 GOP primary.<\/p>\n<h3>DeSantis \u2062Struggles to Catch Up<\/h3>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis\u200b has \u200dbeen\u200d struggling\u200c to make up ground on Trump\u2062 and has\u2063 recently attempted to reboot his campaign with\u200d a new strategy. He hopes this fresh\u200b approach will give his campaign the boost it needs.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was conducted just under six months before the\u2064 state&#8217;s caucuses, which are currently \u2062scheduled for Jan. 15, 2024. It also revealed that \u200bother GOP candidates, including tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former South Carolina GOP \u2062Gov. Nikki \u2064Haley, former Vice President \u200dMike Pence, and former New Jersey GOP Gov. Chris Christie, scored single \u200bdigits at 5% and 3% respectively. Ten percent of likely caucus\u2064 participants in Iowa remained undecided about the GOP lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tim Scott&#8217;s Rise<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tim Scott, who \u200bhad previously been polling in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-gov-gretchen-whitmer-allegedly-traveled-to-florida-before-expressing-concern-about-traveling-to-fl\/\" title=\"Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Allegedly Traveled To Florida Before Expressing \u2018Concern\u2019 About Traveling To FL\">single digits<\/a>, is now \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-closes-in-on-ron-desantis-in-iowa\/\" title=\"Tim Scott narrows gap with Ron DeSantis in Iowa.\">making\u2064 significant strides<\/a> in Iowa. He is set to host a town hall with Gov. Kim Reynolds in Ankeny, Iowa, next Friday, further solidifying his\u200c presence in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Co\/efficient poll surveyed 2,283 likely participants\u200b in the Republican Iowa caucus from July 15-17 and \u2062had a margin of error of\u2064 2.6 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more\u2064 from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is making significant gains in Iowa, polling at 10% and closing in on Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), according to a recent Co\/efficient survey. The poll, funded by the Trump campaign, shows Scott&#8217;s growing popularity in the battleground state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1979666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1979665","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}