8,200: The number of “signed, committed caucus pledges” they’ve collected.Ī KENNEDY RETURNS TO CAPITOL HILL - House Democrats took several swipes at presidential candidate and prominent anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist ROBERT F.

The group says that “within weeks will have ‘hit every target voter in Iowa at least once.’”

200,000: The number of doors the PAC has knocked on in Iowa.

Five: The number of offices it plans to have opened by the end of the month (Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport and Sioux City).

21: The number of full-time staffers Never Back Down, the pro-DeSantis super PAC, has in the state.

Some notable numbers from the Register on the efforts to boost DeSantis: JIMMY CENTERS, a Republican strategist: “If you come in and you do a small gathering with a certain group and then maybe do a speech at a larger event that night, that’s not a blitz, folks.

On what DeSantis should do: Iowa GOP operatives say he “needs to follow the traditional Iowa caucus playbook and start hitting the campaign trail in earnest - not just at high-profile events like the Iowa GOP’s approaching Lincoln Dinner, but in smaller meet-and-greets.” RON DeSANTIS faces growing national doubts over his stalled presidential bid, Republican political operatives in Iowa say they’re not ready to hit the panic button - so long as DeSantis takes seriously the opportunity to reset and refocus on competing in the early voting states,” write the Des Moines Register’s Brianne Pfannenstiel and Galen Bacharier. GOOD PULSE CHECK FROM IOWA - “As Florida Gov. “I support expungement, but there’s no deal out there.” (Notably, he did not address whether he promised Trump he would hold a vote on expungement.) In the halls of the Capitol this morning, McCarthy responded to our reporting: “I’ve been very clear, from long before when I voted against the impeachments, that they did it for purely political purposes,” he told NBC’s Ryan Nobles. This morning, Playbook reported that Trump world is furious at House Speaker KEVIN McCARTHY for not following through on a promise they say he made to former President DONALD TRUMP: that he would hold a vote expunging Trump’s impeachments ahead of August recess.

McCARTHY DENIES A ‘DEAL’ WITH TRUMP - It was a scoop that rocked Capitol Hill. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on Monday, July 17, 2023, in Tega Cay, S.C. Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov.

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