Republican candidates will start squaring off Monday in Iowa as caucusgoers and voters begin deciding which GOP nominee will tackle President Biden this November.
The Republican main race has been underway for nearly a 12 months and has included large-scale assaults as candidates have jockeyed to shut the hole between themselves and former President Trump, who has maintained commanding leads in polls.
However regardless of Trump’s frontrunner standing, he has not been probably the most focused GOP candidate. As a substitute, the candidates battling behind him have set their sights on one another, trying to chop down and distance themselves from their challengers.
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Former President Donald Trump, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy are vying for the Republican presidential nomination. (Getty Pictures)
The race has featured in depth money poured into political maneuvering, together with assault adverts. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been probably the most focused GOP candidate in that regard as voters start deciding on the Republican presidential nominee.
In line with Federal Election Fee filings, DeSantis has confronted almost $48 million in damaging impartial expenditures, together with TV and radio adverts. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has been attacked the second most, with virtually $24 million in damaging impartial expenditures going towards her.
Haley and DeSantis, particularly, have focused one another relentlessly as they try to solidify themselves because the Trump different.
Trump, in the meantime, has confronted $23 million in damaging impartial expenditures, filings present. President Biden has seen $21 million in such spending geared toward him.
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Former President Trump has maintained commanding leads in polls. (Sean Rayford/Getty Pictures)
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Iowans will head to greater than 1,600 caucus websites Monday evening whereas braving frigid below-zero temperatures to solid ballots within the lead-off contest of the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race.
Fox Information Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
