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DeSantis Beefs Up Ground Game in Iowa

August 11, 2023 at 10:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Ron DeSantis is nearly a third of the way through his tour of each county in Iowa — but now with a chairperson backing his campaign in every part of the state,” Politico reports.

“The county-level recruitment is the latest sign of the DeSantis team’s aggressive networking in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, even as his campaign has been beset by weak polling numbers and strategy missteps. The campaign recently shed a third of its staff, and DeSantis replaced his campaign manager, Generra Peck, earlier this week.”

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