- The New York Times reports that President Trump has personally complained about Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds.
- He believes he should back the 2024 bid after supporting Reynolds’ past campaigns, the report said.
- Reynolds, who remains neutral in the Republican presidential primary, appeared alongside DeSantis.
Former President Donald Trump has recently been quietly complaining about Iowa Republican Governor Kim Reynolds, and the former commander-in-chief has decided to run for president in 2024 after endorsing her in the 2018 gubernatorial race. I believed that I should support him. According to the New York Times.
Reynolds, a sought-after Republican presidential candidate who has pledged to remain neutral throughout the primary process, has been on several occasions with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who remains Trump’s biggest rival for the GOP nomination. I’m showing a famous figure.
According to The Times, some of the former president’s advisers are doing everything in their power to help DeSantis in Reynolds’ political trajectory without publicly revealing his intentions. Impressed, some people ridicule Mr. Reynolds’ neutrality claims, he said.
“She’s quote-neutral, quote-neutral,” a person close to Trump told The Times.
The newspaper reported that Trump believed Reynolds should have held a rally before he narrowly won his first full gubernatorial election in 2018, but that he should have rewarded his campaign support so far. The paper also reported that other Republican lawmakers Trump has endorsed have expressed similar sentiments.
“I hate to say it, but without me she wouldn’t have won, you know that, right?” Trump said of Reynolds’ 2018 campaign at a June rally in Iowa.
The newspaper said his remarks, made in front of a group overwhelmingly supportive of the governor, did not elicit a strong reaction from those in attendance.
The report also said Reynolds couldn’t believe Trump felt his first gubernatorial run was driven by his campaign endorsement.former president too supported Reynolds won a landslide run for re-election in 2022.
Reynolds took office in May 2017 after President Trump nominated then-Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad as ambassador to China.
Trump left the White House in 2021, but Reynolds and DeSantis have become stars within the party, with many Republicans pointing to the governors’ coronavirus restrictions. fought with After the first outbreak of 2020 is a big reason for its success.
The paper noted that Reynolds and DeSantis felt at ease with each other when they appeared before Republican crowds and had developed a strong friendship as conservative leaders during the pandemic.