Rating the GOP candidates in Iowa | Washington Examiner

RON DESANTIS. The Florida governor was the last candidate to appear, and he was the best. He issued a strong defense of the abortion bill he signed in Florida and suggested he did not expect such a bill to be passed nationally. He was clear about Ukraine and applied a vision of American strength with a caution about the mission creep he saw during his own time in the military. He was sharp about the overreaching of law enforcement and national security agencies. And he was particularly sharp about a Central Bank Digital Currency, on which his short answer was: Not gonna happen.

DeSantis’s performance showed that there is a reason he is solidly in the position of main challenger to Trump for the Republican nomination. (Trump himself declined to appear in Iowa Friday.) Yes, there’s been talk of DeSantis struggling, of failing to connect with voters, of losing donors, of simply not being a likable candidate. But the governor’s time onstage in Des Moines on Friday showed why he is, at the moment, the strongest candidate to take on Trump.

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