Vivek Ramaswamy is making a move, while Donald Trump is still far ahead.
Far from the spotlight, while campaigning in eastern Iowa on Thursday night, Ron DeSantis ended up looking like one more competitor in the crowd.
DeSantis did not hurt himself on Wednesday. Many viewers even thought he won the debate. But it wasn’t overwhelming. In aof debate-watching Republicans, nearly as many people — 26 percent to DeSantis’ 29 percent — said Ramaswamy was the winner. Of the candidates in the primary, DeSantis is still running second to Trump. But Ramaswamy is drawing closer, and DeSantis is hardly clearing the field.
More than any of his competitors, DeSantis’ campaign was built on the premise that he alone could defeat Trump. Now, he was back to Iowa, starting another campaign swing with more pressure on him from lower-polling candidates than ever before. “He held serve, going out the same place he went in,” said Whit Ayres, the longtime Republican pollster.
“DeSantis did exactly what he needed to do last night and won the debate,” Hal Lambert, founder of Point Bridge Capital and a max-out DeSantis donor, said. Another contributor, Pete Snyder of investment firm Disruptor Inc., concurred, saying the governor was able to share his policy ideas “unfettered and uninterrupted by the rest of the field.”
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