Larry Hogan, one of the highest-profile Republicans open to running against President Trump, sounded notes Monday that candidates-in-waiting have long tried to hit in this early-primary state. “It currently makes no sense, with a president that has the kind of approval rating that he does in his own party,” Hogan said in an interview. No,” said Craig Robinson, a former state Republican Party official who now runs a conservative Iowa website. A Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll last month found 85 percent of Iowa Republicans approved of the way Trump is handling his job. “We look forward to reelecting President Trump in 2020,” Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Joyce said.

Source: Washington Post March 05, 2019 00:11 UTC