Trump 2024 flirting doesn't stop other Republicans from visiting early voting states
Fox News
Former President Trump's repeated teasing of a 2024 White House run is not preventing other potential Republican presidential hopefuls from visiting the states that kick off the presidential primary and caucus calendar.
"If you want to run for president, you need to be laying the ground work right now," longtime Republican strategist Alex Conant told Fox News. "That doesn’t guarantee that you will be running for president but since the field is potentially very open and very competitive, it’s important to get started early."
Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas traveled to Iowa this weekend, his second visit so far this summer to the state whose caucuses for half a century have kicked off the presidential nominating process. And former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have already made stops this year in Iowa, New Hampshire – which for a century’s held the first-in-the-nation primary and votes second in the nominating calendar, and South Carolina, which holds the third contest in the GOP schedule.