Trump is outsourcing his Iowa campaign to surrogates — and his voters totally understand
NY Post
MARION, Iowa — It’s crunch time in Iowa, and the odds-on favorite in next week’s Republican caucus, former President Donald Trump, can hardly be found.
The 77-year-old Trump has let prominent surrogates — such as his eldest son, Don Jr.; Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake; and former HUD Secretary Ben Carson — pick up the campaigning slack while he busies himself elsewhere, typically responding to the four pending criminal cases against him.
In fact, Trump has appeared at or scheduled just 25 events in Iowa between late March 2021 and Jan. 18, according to a tracker kept by the Des Moines Register.
By contrast, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has done 85 events, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has done 140, and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has done 315.
Not that the former president’s supporters mind.
“It’s amazing to me how much he is doing with all the corruption and the attacks and the legal malarkey going on,” Jill Rowell, 60, told The Post at a faith event headlined by Carson at Grace Baptist Church here Thursday.
