Iowa may be the most important state on Donald J. Trump’s early 2024 political calendar, but he hasn’t been making many friends there lately. He lashed out at Iowa’s popular Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, and then his campaign informed one of the state’s politically influential evangelical leaders, Bob Vander Plaats, that the former president would skip a gathering of presidential candidates this week in Des Moines. The back-to-back moves on Monday — which the campaign of Gov. “With Trump’s personality, I feel he thinks he owns Iowa,” said Steve Boender, a board member for the Family Leader, the conservative Christian group organizing the event on Friday that Mr. Trump is skipping. “And I’m not sure he does.”

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Persons: Donald J, Trump’s, hasn’t, Kim Reynolds, Bob Vander Plaats, Ron DeSantis, ”, Trump, Steve Boender Organizations: Republican, Gov, Family, Christian Locations: Iowa, Des Moines, Florida