‘She Has Trump Antibodies Now’
DES MOINES, Iowa — She made her last stand in a public school library.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds had taken a huge political gamble in backing her friend and fellow Gov. Ron DeSantis for the Republican nomination, bucking both Iowa governors’ traditional caucus neutrality and her erstwhile ally Donald Trump. The former president had ever since been foretelling the end of her political career and trashing her from campaign stops in her own state, sometimes getting boos at the mention of her name. These were ominous signals for a rising Republican star in a party beholden to Trump.
But in the days before the caucus, through a blizzard and plunging temperatures, through stubbornly consistent polls...
