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...“I believe he did a great job when he was in office last time, and we’ve been downhill ever since,” said Lindy Snyder, a first-time caucus goer who works for the US postal service....
...It has also raised the stakes for Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, and Nikki Haley, the former US ambassador to the UN, to mount more effective campaigns against the former president — starting with the...
...Trump’s victory was the largest-ever vote share in a contested Iowa caucus, beating the 41 per cent won by George W Bush in 2000....
...Ron DeSantis Governor of Florida DeSantis, 45, had been seen as the Republican best positioned to challenge Trump for the party’s nomination in 2024....
...The group was the driving force behind the so-called Gingrich Revolution and secured early conservative backing for George W Bush’s presidential aspirations....
...For a long stretch last year, it was Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, who was in pole position to take advantage of any cracks in support for Trump, particularly in Iowa, where he campaigned assiduously...
...Ramaswamy called the former UN ambassador, the only woman in the debate, “Dick Cheney in three-inch heels”, in a reference to George W Bush’s hawkish vice-president....
...The previous largest margin of victory was George W Bush’s 11 percentage points in 2000. Whether or not Iowa is predictive, Trump still looks set to sweep the table....
...Snyder was in the middle of smoking Thanksgiving turkeys in November 2008 when President George W Bush’s administration called to ask his team to lead an effort to save the nation’s teetering car industry...
...A Harvard graduate, Stefanik was initially seen as a moderate Republican, having worked in the George W Bush White House and later for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign....
...It’s more the fundamentals,” said Bob McNally, president of consultancy Rapidan Energy and a former energy adviser to George W Bush....
...Professor Timothy Snyder (Lunch with the FT, July 29) correctly argues for remembering history and links Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine to the Munich crisis of 1938....
...Both George W Bush and Barack Obama’s administrations obfuscated on Afghanistan....
...What went so wrong for Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis? Well, Ron DeSantis, even before the primaries. Lauren Fedor Yeah. Long before, Tuesday, Ron DeSantis had pretty much given up on New Hampshire....
...But in Midland, the west Texas frontier town where George W Bush spent his childhood, they have made Biden an unpopular man....
...Trump won the largest vote share in a contested Iowa caucus, comfortably beating the 41 per cent won by George W Bush in 2000....
...Victory in the Iowa caucus on the Republican side has not translated into winning the White House since the days of George W Bush’s campaign....
...However, Klain did not outlast Andy Card, who served as George W Bush’s first chief of staff from 2001 to 2006....
...Republican voters such as Snyder could affect the level of continued US assistance to Ukraine....
...George W Bush, the former president, said of Biden in a video clip obtained by Axios: “The administration started off on the right foot”....
...Quickly narrowing the field to Trump vs Nikki Haley, which now seems the most likely endgame, would not guarantee the former South Carolina governor automatically wins over supporters of Christie and Ron...
...Dick and Liz Uihlein, the shipping and packaging billionaires, gave more than $3mn to Ron DeSantis but have flipped back to Trump. Liz Uihlein says she wants to see DeSantis run again....
...Ralph Nader’s 97,488 votes in Florida in 2000 let George W Bush clinch the deciding state. Without Nader, no Iraq war....
...Kellogg recently led a delegation from the AFPI to Israel where they met with Ron Dermer, the minister of strategic affairs, and Yoav Gallant, the defence minister....
...It is not surprising to see the Florida governor Ron DeSantis stumble out of the gate as he begins testing the waters of presidential politics on the national stage (“DeSantis fuels Republican rift on Ukraine...
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