Ron desantis during his speech while former texas congressman will hurd received a chorus of boos in response to his criticism of the former president. Our bill melugin tracking all of this, he is in des moines with the details. Bill . Reporter molly, good afternoon to you. The iowa gop caucuses are still almost six months away, set for january a 15th. But all these gop candidates here in des moines last night making their pitch to voterser at the lincoln dinner. Before the dinner started, iowas very popular republican governor kim reynolds got on stage to speak. She has not made an endorsement yet, and its highly sought after by these candidates. Well get right into what they had to say starting with former President Trump. He got on stage and talked about having the most secure border in American History under his presidency. He talked about his Polling Numbers being better than ron desantis, and he slammed joe bidens Foreign Policy specifically on afghanistan. Take a listen. The mos
stage as well. he called for a 15-week abortion wan at the federal level, taking a very strong pro-life position then, he also said it s time to resist the politics of personality, potentially a hot at former president donald trump, and he also had his plans for what he would do with the military. take a listen. we can embrace our role as leader of the free world, confront russian aggression and chinese provocations with a new military fitted to the challenges in the 2 21st century. and we can end the political correctness at the pentagon including reinstituting a ban on transgender personnel in the united states military. reporter: so again, you hear there former vp mike pence calling for a ban on transgender personnel in the u.s. military. former president trump though still blowing everybody else out of the water when it comes to the polling pretty much in every single state. he made sure to point that out, that in the state of south
century. we can end the political correctness and the pentagon including reinstituting a ban on transgender personnel in the united states military. again, i was governor kim reynolds is very, very popular out here. a lot of these candidates really want her endorsement that is highly sought after. she is not giving it yet she said she is staying neutral until after the iowa gop caucuses which are just under six months away to set for january 15 a lot of these candidates to do to try to chip into donald trump s lead will send it back to you. a lot of work ahead of them bill melugin light on the campaign trail there in iowa. remember the first gop debate is just 25 days away, august the a, 23rd august 23 in milwaukee of course you can watch it right here on fox news channel 9:00 p.m. eastern time, martha and brett moderating mark your