{"id":1988419,"date":"2023-08-02T04:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T08:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/idea-of-electability-upended-in-iowa-after-trump-and-2020\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T04:18:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T08:18:41","slug":"idea-of-electability-upended-in-iowa-after-trump-and-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/idea-of-electability-upended-in-iowa-after-trump-and-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa shakes up electability notion with Trump and 2020."},"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%2Fidea-of-electability-upended-in-iowa-after-trump-and-2020%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=1988419&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>Prospective Iowa Republican primary caucusgoers dismiss concerns about \u200dTrump&#8217;s chances in a rematch against Biden<\/h2>\n<p>Prospective Iowa Republican primary caucusgoers are dismissing concerns about \u2063former President\u200c Donald Trump&#8217;s \u2064chances in a rematch of the \u200clast election\u200b against President Joe Biden next year. But with many\u200c Republicans adamant that Trump won three years ago, the issue of electability has changed.<\/p>\n<h3>Electability concerns arise after\u200d Trump&#8217;s\u200d indictment and\u200d the Capitol\u2064 attack<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s \u200ba \u200ddilemma sure to take\u2064 on greater \u200durgency after Trump was indicted on charges relating to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and the subsequent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>After a Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) meet-and-greet in Oskaloosa, Bryan Person, 50, \u2064who will likely caucus for Trump,\u2063 downplayed concerns about the former president&#8217;s\u2062 electability in a general election six months before Iowa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/idea-of-electability-upended-in-iowa-after-trump-and-2020\/\" title=\"Iowa shakes up electability notion with Trump and 2020.\">opening nominating contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s \u2062part of the play by other \u2063people,&#8221; the Adel technology\u200d representative told \u2064the Washington Examiner. &#8220;It \u2064could be the weaker pack or the weaker candidates.\u2063 They couldn&#8217;t play in this system\u200b without Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But before DeSantis&#8217;s remarks, Jenna Belcher, 49, who\u200c is considering caucusing\u2063 for DeSantis after supporting Trump in\u2063 2016\u2062 and 2020, expressed concerns about\u200d the prospects of candidates other \u2063than Trump in the primary and what repercussions that will have for next year&#8217;s election as the governor seeks to make\u200d electability central to his\u2064 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether Trump can win against\u200b Biden next year amid his legal problems, including a \u200dpossible second federal\u200c indictment regarding the\u2062 2020 election and Jan. 6, \u200bthe Oskaloosa assistant responded, &#8220;I pray to God so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But electability is different after 2020 since\u2062 so many of Trump&#8217;s supporters insist he won his last election. For \u2064a man who attended the meet-and-greet \u2062with Belcher, Trump \u200cwould be reelected next year if &#8220;there&#8217;s no cheating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;No \u2063one&#8217;s going to change my mind on that,&#8221; he\u2063 said without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-scott-presler-every-aspect-of-our-lives-is-affected-by-bidens-feckless-and-reckless-agenda\/\" title=\"Exclusive -- Scott Presler: 'Every Aspect of Our Lives' Is Affected by Biden\u2019s 'Feckless and Reckless Agenda'\">providing specific examples<\/a>. \u2062&#8221;That&#8217;s my concern. \u200dWe&#8217;ve got to get a\u200d hold of this election system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Leanne Hessing, 66, praised Trump as a &#8220;good&#8221; president but contended Republicans &#8220;need somebody new with some new ideas,&#8221; particularly because Trump has become &#8220;vindictive&#8221; and &#8220;the media \u2064is way \u200ctoo \u200dset \u2063against him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot are still for Trump because they feel like &#8230; it was unfair, the last election, and he should \u2062have been elected president,&#8221;\u200d the Pella home school teacher said. &#8220;But I think more are starting to see that we probably need somebody new.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Trump continues to dominate the Republican primary, public opinion about him \u2063has morphed since Jan. 6, \u200baccording to \u2063John Bandstra, 67, Hessing&#8217;s friend.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If Trump ends up being\u2063 the nominee, I&#8217;ll vote for him, but he&#8217;s not my first choice,&#8221; the Oskaloosa farmer said, citing the former president&#8217;s policies. &#8220;Trump&#8217;s attitude probably turned me more against\u2063 him than \u200banything lately. Since Jan. 6,\u200b he&#8217;s not acting for the good of the country. It&#8217;s more &#8216;Vengeance is mine.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But before a \u200cseparate DeSantis \u200cmeet and greet held the \u2063previous day an hour away \u2062in Chariton, Brad Reece, 61, underscored that \u200c&#8221;all of these things&#8221; that Democrats are &#8220;throwing&#8221; at Trump are having the unintended\u200b consequence of Republicans &#8220;getting more behind\u2063 Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They do not like to see what they&#8217;re trying to\u200b do to Donald\u200c Trump,&#8221; the Chariton farmer said. &#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s obvious to me and a lot of other people that they&#8217;re so hypocritical \u2063in Washington, D.C. We&#8217;re getting tired of it. \u2063We&#8217;re just fed up with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>DeSantis and Haley make their cases for electability<\/h3>\n<p>Biden averages less than a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-gears-up-for-midterm-elections-as-democrats-fear-doom\/\" title=\"Biden Gears up for Midterm Elections as Democrats Fear Doom\">percentage point edge<\/a> over Trump, 45% to 44%, according to RealClearPolitics, \u2064but a New York Times-Siena College poll published this week found \u200bthe pair had 43% apiece in a hypothetical \u2062general election. Biden has, on average, a slightly larger\u200c advantage over DeSantis, 45% to \u200c43%, per RealClearPolitics, as Trump leads DeSantis by 36 points in the primary, 54% to 18%.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of that\u2062 polling, DeSantis has reiterated his electability argument, most recently this week on Fox News with Bret Baier.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s too many voters who just\u200d aren&#8217;t going to vote for him going\u2062 forward,&#8221; the governor said. &#8220;I saw \u200cit in Florida in \u2062my reelection. I won the first time by less than a percent, second time \u200cby 20. Why did people vote against me in &#8217;18 but then voted for me &#8217;22? The\u200b No. 1\u2063 reason \u200bthey gave \u200dwas because of Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also\u200c think, in \u2064terms of the base, you need to have a\u200b cadre of personnel,&#8221; he added. &#8220;If\u2062 you want to slay this administrative state, you got \u200bto\u2062 be disciplined, you got to be focused, and you got to have people surrounding you that are going \u2063to go and support the mission. &#8230; The former president would have a very difficult \u200dtime getting the type of personnel to \u200bjoin the administration that you would need \u2062to \u200bactually bring\u200b this stuff to fruition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is making a similar case, though she has been \u2062more indirect about Trump, advocating \u200binstead &#8220;a new generational leader&#8221; and competency tests for public \u2062officials older \u2062than 75.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, outside organizations, \u200dsuch as Americans for Prosperity,\u200c are expanding their attempts to encourage the electorate to vote for neither Trump nor Biden, spending \u200b$1 million in \u200bthe first-in-the-nation states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, \u200dand South \u2063Carolina.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Americans can&#8217;t afford four more years of\u200c Joe Biden,&#8221; AFP Action Director Nathan Nascimento said. &#8220;Yet, \u2064if Trump is the nominee, that is \u200dexactly what they will get. &#8230; Under Donald Trump&#8217;s watch, Republicans lost \u2062the House, the \u200dSenate, and the White House. We need to move on from Biden, and Republicans need to move on from Trump and nominate someone that can win the general election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014 Iowa Republicans are unconcerned about Donald Trump&#8217;s chances in a rematch against Joe Biden next year. Despite the issue of electability, many still believe Trump won the last election. 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