Newton, Iowa — On Saturday, December 2, Florida governor Ron DeSantis hit a major milestone. He’d completed what in Iowa politics is known as the “full Grassley,” a nod to the famed tradition of the state’s senior senator, who aims to visit all of the Hawkeye State’s 99 counties every year. At the end of his rally, DeSantis got the dreaded voter question that came to define the 2024 Republican presidential primary: How will you govern differently from former president Donald Trump?
“So one, I mean, I think — I think his policies were overall sound.” DeSantis then embarked on a five-minute-long answer touching on his own legislative record as governor of Florida while ticking through the former president’s policy failures: elevating Anthony Fauci, not draining the swamp, not finishing the border wall.
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