Former President Donald Trump claimed he personally helped Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IO) win his eighth election.
Trump was in Iowa on Saturday speaking at Fort Dodge Senior High School for his Team Trump Iowa Commit to Caucus Event. This was the candidate’s event instead of attending Friday’s Thanksgiving Family Forum Friday, were his opponents Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley were in attendance.
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“I got a lot of guys elected here, including Grassley, who was having a problem. Including Joni Ernst, who had a big problem,” Trump said. “Could you do, sir, a rally for me in Iowa? Absolutely. You think it‘s easy to come from wherever the hell I am and do a rally? I got them elected. Remember that. But Ron DeSantis, I got him elected.”
Grassley, 89, has long won his elections by a comfortable majority, but it has decreased over recent elections. In 2010, Grassley won 64% of the vote, then in 2016 he won with just over 60% of the vote, and in 2022 he won with 56%.
The senior senator’s office did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
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Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IO) on the other hand, has always won by narrow margins, taking only 52% of the vote in 2014 and 51% in 2020 despite not being challenged in the primary by any other Republican candidates.
Trump has the lead in Iowa with 58 days until the state’s caucus, at 47% according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, compared to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) 17.3% and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s 14.3%. Iowa’s caucus will be the first in the nation.
