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The cancellation of Donald Trump’s visit left him free in the state, where he carried out a seduction operation. But Trump’s base remains devoted to him.
From our special correspondent in Iowa, Claire Meynial
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En a sky blue shirt and jeans, between old cars and in front of an audience eating burgers from paper plates decorated with the American flag, Ron DeSantis dared: “Governing is not building your image, or talking on the networks social, or flaunt his virtue [virtue signaling, une de ses expressions préférées, NDLR]. It’s winning and producing results… We have to reject the culture of failure that has weighed on our party in recent years… If we lose focus, if we focus this election on the past or other related matters, so I think the Democrats are going to beat us again. For anyone who follows American politics, it was a reminder that the Republican Party, since being dominated by Donald Trump, is a losing machine…