Trump and DeSantis to Hold Competing Iowa Events on Same Day

As 2024’s Iowa GOP caucus slowly approaches, two likely frontrunners are preparing to talk past each other from across the Hawkeye State.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump will hold competing events on May 13 in Iowa.

Trump will hold a “Make America Great Again” rally at Lauridsen Amphitheater, Water Works Park, in Des Moines, the state’s capital.

“I am heading to Des Moines this Saturday to rally with the Great People of Iowa! Unlike Joe Biden, I protected Iowa’s First-in-the-Nation Caucuses, and always will,” Trump said in a May 8 Truth Social post.

The Democratic Party has revised its caucus and primary schedule for 2024, making South Carolina its first-in-the-nation contest.

South Carolina was the first primary election won by current President Joe Biden in 2020.

Pete Buttigieg won the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucus but lost the popular vote to Bernie Sanders. Sanders won the subsequent New Hampshire and Nevada primaries before Biden finally claimed South Carolina at the end of February.