Republican candidates try to lock down undecided Iowans in the countdown to the leadoff caucuses

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : " While DeSantis rumbled across the state throughout the past week, Trump scrubbed three of four of his rallies planned for the final weekend of the campaign.
60% : "Trump is a Christian.
56% : Trump is counting on people like Smiarowski, Johnson and tens of thousands of supporters across frigid Iowa to deliver him a decisive victory and cement his status as the undisputed front-runner when Iowa Republicans make the first official choices of the 2024 election.
52% : It was a test run for Iowa's caucuses Monday night -- and of the devotion Trump said last week would make his supporters "walk on glass" for him.
49% : There's no way I'd caucus for anyone else," said 73-year-old Wanda Spiker, also of Indianola, who had attended an event for entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, but said she was always for Trump.
48% : In Indianola, cars from Kentucky, Ohio, Kansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin and Nebraska were evidence of the wide radius from which Trump draws.
41% : Each of the more than half-dozen Iowans who were interviewed in line were adamant about their plans to support Trump and had considered no other candidate.
37% : Both Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has bet big on Iowa, exuded confidence in national television interviews as they compete for a caucus showing that will boost their campaigns even if they don't beat Trump.
11% : The retired homemaker said her husband is a disabled Vietnam War veteran who told her, "If we don't elect Trump again, this country is in real trouble." Because of travel conditions from Des Moines, Haley canceled a Sunday morning stop in the eastern city of Dubuque about an hour before it was to start.

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