Trump a sight unseen in Iowa as 2024 primary season ramps up
Fox News
Former President Donald Trump has yet to make a campaign stop in Iowa, a key state in presidential primaries visited by many of his prospective 2024 opponents.
Few of the White House hopefuls face the lofty expectations in Iowa that Trump does. He finished a competitive second to devout social conservative Ted Cruz in 2016, and went on to carry the state twice, by healthy margins, as the Republican presidential nominee in the 2016 and 2020 elections.
"It is genuinely impossible for this guy to try to manage these expectations," said Luke Martz, a veteran Iowa Republican strategist who helped lead Mitt Romney’s 2012 Iowa caucus campaign. "They are enormous. They are self-made. I don't see how anyone who is saying ‘I’m the guy' can come in and even get even a second-place finish."