At least for the crowd at the Lincoln Dinner…..
‘That’s Entertainment’…..
The others got some appaulse….
The report is Trump spoke for a mere 9 minutes and had’m roaring…..
The rest of the sweepstakes contestents got polite claps except for Will Hurd, who a la’ Chris Christie who called out Trump for running for President to beat the law….He got strongly booed….Christie skipped the dinner…..
Trump has knocked the state establishment GOPer’s and the crowd in the room where clearly on his side….
Politico say the fight that could be developing is for the second tier for the 2024 Republican Presidential nomination between the once sole owner of the spot Ron DeSantis and the Black South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott…..
DeSantis poll numbers are dropping….
Scott’s are rising……
It didn’t matter to the Republicans gathered in the convention center ballroom Friday that he’d hurled insults at their wildly popular governor, or that he is facing a cascade of federal charges.
When Donald Trump strode on stage here for a major gathering of GOP presidential candidates in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, the entire room of party faithful rose to their feet and roared. In an apparently accidental twist, even the walkout music that played hinted at his situation — “One could end up going to prison; one just might be president,” went the Brooks & Dunn song, bits of which played for every candidate that spoke here.
But once again, the former president demonstrated he was still the most dominant force in the room — a hall that had just featured a dozen Republicans also running for the nomination….
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Trump, uncharacteristically, gave just a 9-minute speech, staying under the strict 10-minute cutoff all candidates here were required to abide by. While the crowd was more subdued than at a MAGA rally, and he had to go without his standard “God Bless the USA” walkout song, Trump still received the strongest response of the night.
But as he maintained his status Friday as the Republican Party’s most magnetic figure — and the frontrunner of the 2024 primary — another race was underfoot. It was a fight for the spotlight between DeSantis and Tim Scott.
While the Florida governor buzzed around rural Iowa working frantically to revive his hobbled campaign, the South Carolina senator effectively kicked back and enjoyed the crowd of supporters that gathered to hear him at a town hall Thursday outside Des Moines, an event that coincided with his recent bump in polling…
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