Former President Donald Trump plans to campaign in southeast Iowa on Sunday.
The frontrunner in the GOP presidential nomination chase will deliver remarks at a Team Trump Iowa Commit to Caucus event at 2:30 p.m. in Ottumwa, according to his campaign.
The event will be held at the Bridge View Center, with doors opening at 11:30 a.m.
Trump’s visit to the Hawkeye State comes three and a half months before the Iowa caucuses, the first nominating event of the 2024 presidential campaign season.
He continues to dominate the polls, leading his closest competitor, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, by more than 40 percentage points in the latest RealClearPolitics average of Republican Presidential Nomination polls.
The former president’s lead is a bit smaller in Iowa, where he’s running, on average, 34 points ahead of DeSantis. A Fox Business Channel poll released last week found Trump with 46 percent support among Iowa Republican caucus-goers. DeSantis was backed by 15 percent of respondents, followed by former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley (11 percent) and Ohio businessman Vivek Ramaswamy (7.5 percent).
With just a few months to go before the Iowa GOP’s caucus, campaigns are feverishly working to secure commitments from voters to caucus for their candidate. Signed caucus pledge cards are the gold standard for presidential campaigns, non-binding contracts of sorts between caucus-goer and candidate.
Trump has scheduled five trips to Iowa through the end of October.
“In less than four months from now, we’re going to win the Iowa caucuses in a historic landslide,” Trump told more than 1,000 people last week in Maquoketa, a northeast Iowa community of 6,000 people.
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M.D. Kittle is the National Political Editor for The Star News Network.
Photo “Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore. CC BY-SA 2.0.
