The loop Donald Trump's private jet made above the Iowa State Fair before his visit last weekend was more than just a gesture to the hundreds of supporters — and a few rival candidates — on the ground. It was a reminder that the four-time indicted former president casts a Boeing 757-sized shadow over the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
That's where agreement about Trump seems to end. With less than five months before Iowans cast the first votes in the GOP contest, conversations with more than 40 Republicans at the time-honored presidential campaign ritual suggest the party is far from unified on much of anything else.
“President Trump – he’s just got a lot of distractions, and you know his bedside manner’s not good,” said Des Moines Republican Frank Miller, who was excited about the candidates he heard from at a barbecue stop near the animal barns. “I believe I would still caucus for him," said the 70-year-old retired communications administrator from Ankeny while attending a candidate interview series led by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds. “I believe it's intentional on his opponents' part.”
Trump will not be able to count on Republican Abbey Sindt, a 37-year-old mental health nurse from small-town Story City. She voted for Trump previously but was at the fair in part to size up Pence. Hoksbergen sees Trump as imperfect but tested. He attributes concerns about Trump's viability to what he views as news media bias. “It's only the negative stuff that everybody talks about,” he said. “I look past a lot of that.”
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