Could Iowa be Ron DeSantis's last stand?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : He notes that the second choice for Trump supporters is Mr DeSantis, whose backers have the former president as their second choice.
51% : Indeed, Mr DeSantis's supporters regularly point to how he fulfilled campaign promises conservatives wanted, from passing a six-week abortion ban to fighting Disney when it opposed his "Don't Say Gay" law that restricted how schools taught about sexual orientation and gender identity to passing school vouchers.
50% : And he needs to convince the Trump voters - 'Hey, if you want all the good of Trump, but without all the drama, then I'm your guy'".
49% : But she noted at the time that "Trump is the only one doing big rallies.
33% : "So really, it's Trump and DeSantis dividing that vote.
27% : Mr Vander Plaats tells The Independent that Mr DeSantis "needs to convince those who are supporting Nikki Haley, 'listen, you want an alternative to Trump?
27% : "DeSantis has said, [Trump] was the right man to start this, but he's not the right guy to finish this ...
24% : "I think he started out by saying things like 'I'm your Trump guy without the baggage of Trump'.
22% : But ... people like DeSantis, and Haley are positioned in a place where they might be able to get that strong second-place finish and that might be enough to really create some doubt in the next several primary competitions after Iowa about how strong Trump is as a candidate," she added in late November.
20% : people thought this guy was gonna go in and really blow the doors off of other people who are talented, relatively speaking, candidates in a primary, and then take on Donald Trump, who from the beginning had DeSantis's number and knew he was a weak candidate," Mr Wilson added.
20% : "A lot of the Republican donor class were operating not from metrics or math or polling or reality, but from wish casting in a desperate attempt to get away from Donald Trump.
20% : I mean clearly Donald Trump is not the same Trump from 2016," he said on MSNBC on Thursday morning.
9% : And now he is travelling the state relentlessly closing the sale with Iowans," he says, repeating a line of Mr DeSantis that "Trump is running for his issues, Nikki is running for donor issues, and he's running for our issues.
7% : "You go back to October of 2020, that first Trump/Biden debate when Donald Trump was the incumbent president, and Biden beat him in that debate, I think, pretty soundly.

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