{"id":1985600,"date":"2023-07-28T22:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T02:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-day-dinner-trump-dings-ron-desanctus-on-ethanol-in-iowa\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T22:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T02:23:56","slug":"lincoln-day-dinner-trump-dings-ron-desanctus-on-ethanol-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-day-dinner-trump-dings-ron-desanctus-on-ethanol-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump criticizes Ron DeSanctus over ethanol at Lincoln Day Dinner 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\">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%2Flincoln-day-dinner-trump-dings-ron-desanctus-on-ethanol-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=1985600&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>Former President Donald\u200d Trump\u2062 Appeals\u2064 to Iowa Republicans<\/h2>\n<p>During the Iowa Republican Party&#8217;s \u2064Lincoln Day dinner in Des Moines, former President Donald Trump made a\u2064 passionate plea to Iowa Republicans to support him in the upcoming 2024 Republican presidential primary. Trump took \u200cthe opportunity\u2062 to criticize Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, claiming that his critics would not be attacking him if he were not a dominant \u2063force in \u2064the race.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Unlike the establishment globalists in this race, I&#8217;ve been \u2063an unwavering warrior for \u200dIowa ethanol,&#8221; Trump \u2062declared. &#8220;Ron DeSanctus\u2063 has \u2062aggressively gone against ethanol.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The crowd warmly received Trump, expressing \u2064their love for him as\u200b he basked in the applause. However,\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/campaign-2024-an-early-look-at-the-possible-republican-contenders\/\" title=\"Campaign 2024: An Early Look At The Possible Republican Contenders\">long-shot candidate<\/a> \u200dWill \u200dHurd faced boos when he \u200csuggested that Trump&#8217;s motivation for running was to avoid prison.<\/p>\n<p>Trump emphasized\u200b his strong friendship with Iowa, stating, &#8220;I&#8217;m here to deliver a simple message: Iowa&#8217;s never had a better friend in the White House \u200dthan Donald J. \u200cTrump.&#8221; He highlighted his stance on abortion and trade\u200c policies as evidence of his commitment to the state.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his usual tendency to speak for over an hour, Trump adhered to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apple-limits-airdrop-feature-after-ccp-complains-it-circumvents-censorship\/\" title=\"Apple Limits Airdrop Feature After CCP Complains It Circumvents Censorship\">10-minute time limit<\/a>,\u200c sticking\u2062 to his script. However, he made sure to label President Joe \u200bBiden as &#8220;the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ufc-crowd-cheers-as-trump-enters-packed-vegas-arena\/\" title=\"UFC crowd roars for Trump at Vegas arena.\">crooked president<\/a> in the history of\u2064 our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They \u2064rigged the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-kind-of-a-jerk-carlson-mocks-implosion-of-2-gop-hopefuls-during-interview-with-beck\/\" title=\"Carlson ridicules downfall of 2 GOP candidates in chat with Beck\">presidential \u200celection<\/a> in 2020. We&#8217;re not going to allow them to \u200brig the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-covid-case-surges-more-fake-news\/\" title=\"Are COVID Case Surges More Fake News?\">presidential election<\/a> in \u200c2024,&#8221; Trump asserted. &#8220;They used COVID to cheat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump also acknowledged that his position as\u2063 a frontrunner in the race has made him a target \u200cfor his opponents. He stated, &#8220;If I \u2063weren&#8217;t running, I would have nobody coming after \u2064me, or if I was losing by a lot, I would have nobody coming after me. They \u2064wouldn&#8217;t be\u2062 coming after me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Current Poll Numbers<\/h3>\n<p>According to \u200dRealClearPolitics, Trump currently enjoys an average of 52% support among Republican voters. Governor Ron \u200bDeSantis follows with 18%, while biotechnology entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former Vice \u2062President Mike Pence, \u200dformer U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley,\u2063 and\u2062 Senator Tim Scott trail \u200dbehind with 5%, 5%, 4%, and 3% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">click \u200bhere<\/a> to visit The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014 Ex-President Donald Trump criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), asserting that his critics wouldn&#8217;t target him if he wasn&#8217;t a strong contender in the 2024 GOP primary. Trump urged Iowa Republicans to back him, highlighting his distinction from establishment globalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1985601,"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-1985600","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\/1985600","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=1985600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}