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Approximately 100 people were in attendance, with appearances from candidates including biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Texas businessman and pastor Ryan Binkley, U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, and Rev. E.W. Jackson. Former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Hutchinson were seen at Jack Trice Stadium.
DES MOINES, Iowa — Less than six months away from Iowa’s First-In-The-Nation caucuses and the conversations are heating up in the Hawkeye state. Former President Donald Trump made his first public appearance after a new set of charges were brought against him for the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Twelve other candidates, along with President Trump, […]
would pardon trump. so pardoning somebody who wanted to harm him is only understandable to a cult dynamics. so it s very difficult situation we re in right now. jennifer, we have a couple of people, as i say, if you add up chris christie and will hurd, will hurd is not polling at the moment because he just join the race. kristie was a at i think 2% earlier this week. asa hutchison, 1.3%. so we have 5% versus donald trump s 50 plus percent of republicans with a conscience who would like to save their party. on the one hand, ruth s right, most of the party is a cult. is this a way to save it or is it better than the republican party implodes and something else shows up in its place? it s not a good thing to have one political party that functions in this country. i don t think the republican base is willing to accept a sane non cold like figure. the party has been radicalized. they ve been radicalized to
leader. i ve been saying this for a long time. january 6th was a cult leader rescue operation. and trump for january six instituted loyalty requirements. because for autocrats only loyalty matters. more than policy, where the qualifications. and so the party is kind of stuck. and it is very revealing what has happened to some of the stronger challengers. for example, mike pence, who did the right thing on january 6th and paid a price of being targeted from harm, he s now parroting the party line about cleaning house at doj, and he s also talked about perhaps he would pardon trump. so pardoning somebody who wanted to harm him is only understandable to a cult dynamics. so it s very difficult situation we re in right now. jennifer, we have a couple of people, as i say, if you add up chris christie and will hurd, will hurd is not polling at the moment because he just join the race. kristie was a at i think 2% earlier this week. asa hutchison, 1. 3%.