Top DeSantis Aide Sees Arctic Blast Helping Campaign Odds

  • Frigid weather forecast for Jan. 15 Iowa Republican Caucus
  • DeSantis has deployed all-in strategy on Iowa performance

Campaign signs for Ron Desantis in Des Moines, Iowa on Jan. 10.

Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Ron DeSantis’s campaign is banking that their early strategy to build a robust ground game in Iowa will help them even as frigid weather calls into question voter turnout in Monday’s first-in-the-nation Republican caucus.

The Florida governor is facing off with ex-President Donald Trump and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley on Monday, where temperatures are expected to be below zero after a barrage of snow blanketed the state in the crucial closing days before the caucus.