Republican presidential contenders aiming to position themselves as the party’s top alternative to former President Donald Trump will try to impress evangelicals in Iowa – a crucial voting bloc – at a major gathering in Des Moines.
The Family Leadership Summit, led by influential Christian conservative organizer Bob Vander Plaats, will kick off months of intense campaigning in the Hawkeye State. Trump is skipping the gathering, leaving his rivals with a potentially significant opening ahead of the party’s first presidential debate on August 23. The candidates who are attending – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen.
He has advocated federal action to restrict abortion rights after 15 weeks of pregnancy, and has prodded GOP rivals for failing to take clear positions on federal abortion restrictions. The GOP front-runner – who’s dodged questions on how he would handle a federal abortion ban – won’t have a presence at this year’s summit, which is the same event where Trump said in 2015 that then-Sen. John McCain of Arizona was not a war hero because he had been captured in Vietnam.
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