A storm that’s forecast to dump near a foot of snow in elements of Iowa on Monday and Tuesday is upending the campaigning plans of some candidates as they attempt to profit from the final week earlier than the Republican caucuses.
Nikki Haley, who has been rising within the polls and is attempting to determine herself over Ron DeSantis because the definitive different to former President Donald J. Trump, needed to cancel an occasion in Sioux Metropolis on Monday due to “journey difficulties.”
Mr. Trump’s marketing campaign “indefinitely postponed” an occasion in Ottumwa for a similar cause. Mike Huckabee, the previous governor of Arkansas, and his daughter Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the state’s present governor and former White Home press secretary, had been scheduled to look on the previous president’s behalf however couldn’t make it to Iowa due to the storm.
And Vivek Ramaswamy — who has been sustaining a breakneck tempo in Iowa, typically with 4 or 5 appearances a day — delegated one in all his 5 occasions scheduled for Monday to his spouse, Apoorva.
She campaigned for him in Indianola, simply south of Des Moines, in order that he might make it to a rally in Sioux Metropolis — greater than 150 miles away in northwestern Iowa — two and a half hours later with out flying.
Anjali Huynh contributed reporting.
