What The Hell Happened To Ron DeSantis In Iowa?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : DeSantis, Haley, Trump and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy all had full campaign schedules over the weekend, despite advisories on Iowa's I-80 warning of dangerous travel conditions in eastern Iowa and jackknifed semis littering the shoulder and median.
58% : "A college student from Texas, one of the many political tourists who flock to Iowa during the caucuses, had this to say after seeing Trump for the first time in Indianola, his only in-person event last weekend: "The only other person who can entertain like that is Taylor Swift.
47% : I think his voters are more likely to be with Trump, and once the indictments started coming down, you had the rally-round-the flag effect.
42% : ""The problem is Donald Trump's been organizing here for eight years," said Jimmy Centers, another GOP operative, "and he is, of course, the former president of the United States and the two-time Republican nominee, and with that comes all sorts of institutional organizational advantages.
40% : "Interviews with nearly two dozen voters and insiders over several days here reveal this same thinking regarding the inescapable force of Trump (who did not campaign here as much as DeSantis or Haley), as well as the general sense that DeSantis doesn't possess whatever nebulous quality -- charisma?
40% : "DeSantis on Monday seemed to be in what one reporter observed as the final stage of losing an election to Trump -- attacking him with a candor that many wish he had shown at any point prior to the first votes being cast.
33% : But that promise for DeSantis diminished Monday with a distant second-place finish in the nation's first presidential nominating contest, where he came in well behind Trump and just ahead of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, according to unofficial projections.
32% : In early 2023, the pugnacious Florida governor was seen as the next coming of Donald Trump -- a Republican who shares the former president's increasingly authoritarian vision for the country but not his 91 criminal charges.
25% : And though candidates don't necessarily need to win the caucuses to become their party's eventual nominee (see: Donald Trump in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, for starters), it's hard to imagine how this gets any better for DeSantis as more votes are cast in the coming weeks.
14% : But I think it's Trump attacking him for the first six months of the campaign and almost no response out of DeSantis, that's part of it.

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