Former President Donald Trump has announced several campaign hires in Iowa as other potential presidential contenders court voters in the Hawkeye State.
Trump’s campaign announced the hires on Monday. While the former president, who announced his 2024 bid last November, has yet to travel to Iowa during the latest election cycle, the hires show his campaign is hoping to build momentum in the state early in the primary process.
Trump picked Marshall Moreau to be his campaign’s state director. Moreau has experience winning elections in Iowa. He managed Brenna Bird’s campaign to successfully challenge incumbent Attorney General Tom Miller last year.
Additionally, Trump hired Eric Branstad as a senior adviser. Branstad worked on both of Trump’s previous presidential campaigns, according to the Des Moines Register. State Rep. Bobby Kaufmann (R) was also picked as a senior adviser.
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Alex Latcham, who has served on the former president’s leadership political action committee, will be the campaign’s early states director and work on operations in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.
The hires come as a flurry of possible GOP presidential contenders work to attract the attention of Iowa’s voters.
Former South Carolina GOP Gov. Nikki Haley, who served as a U.N. ambassador under Trump, will be making a campaign sweep through Iowa this week. She announced her presidential bid earlier this month, becoming the second major candidate to declare her candidacy.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) will also be visiting the Hawkeye State this week. He will attend an event as part of a national listening tour, according to the Associated Press. The tour will help inform Scott’s future plans, aides said.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence, who would be courting the state’s evangelical and social conservative vote, is also thought to be weighing a run for the presidency. He has leaned heavily into the culture war being waged within school boards across the country and has advocated more parental control over education.
“We don’t co-parent with government,” Pence said during a stop at an Iowa pizza shop last week. “We trust parents to protect their children, and no one will ever protect America’s children better than their moms and dads.”
