As Trump makes his closing pitch, DeSantis hopes hard work pays off

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

83% : Both candidates closed as would-be Trump successors who could carry on his agenda and make the MAGA movement proud.
59% : More than 32,000 showed up in 2020 -- nearly all for Trump.
58% : But even as he honed in on a largely now-familiar speech, Trump recognized that this event in Iowa was different: That this was crunch time ahead of the all-important caucus night.
52% : ANKENY, Iowa - Donald Trump flew into Iowa this weekend after foregoing the traditional months-long, on-the-ground blitz that has historically defined the state.
44% : Saturday's Des Moines Register poll, which put Trump at 48% and Haley in second with 20%, found far more intensity for Trump; Haley's gains had come in part from less enthusiastic voters, who increasingly saw her as the only candidate who could slow Trump's path to the nomination.
43% : For months now, Trump and his campaign have touted the former president's substantial lead in Iowa.
37% : "You can't sit home," Trump said at one point.
31% : "At DeSantis' event In Dubuque, Kentucky Rep. Tom Massie warmed up the crowd with an imitation of Trump, recalling a time that the former president got "bad advice from people he should have fired."
23% : "I believe what Vivek Ramaswamy says -- the system's never gonna let Trump back into that White House," social conservative activist Bob Vander Plaats told voters at an earlier DeSantis stop, in Atlantic, where pranksters tried to hand the Florida governor a "participation" trophy.
13% : DeSantis offered himself as a conservative who'd succeed where Trump failed and "not let you down" -- on border wall construction, on ending "birthright citizenship" -- as his supporters warned of Trump's potential weakness.
3% : In Ankeny, Ramaswamy repeated his argument that a vote for him could "save Trump" by preventing a looming, unspecific plot to deny Trump the nomination -- even though Trump himself had attacked him for saying it.

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