Impact the future by voting for DeSantis at GOP caucus

The world has gone mad. The media tells us that we will only have the choice between two compromised geriatric politicians for president in 2024. Iowans should refuse to buy this false choice being peddled.

Conservative Iowans have a distinct choice ahead of us: competence, sanity and integrity or chaos.

Our former president represents chaos. He lacks fiscal discipline and the inability to hire competent staff. He refuses to acknowledge any wrongdoing while in office. His final year was one of the most disastrous years in American history.

Thankfully, we’ve been given a chance at a reprieve from this insanity. I knew the policy chops Ron DeSantis possesses even before getting to know him and his wife, Casey, over the past 9 months.

Ron and Casey DeSantis are genuinely the most decent people I’ve met in politics. There’s no performative nonsense — you can even see that in the way our own governor interacts with the DeSantis family. I’ve even hosted them at my own church in Washington, Iowa. Casey DeSantis has become a friend.

I say this to bring the human side into what has become a campaign of lies being peddled by Donald Trump and Nikki Haley. Ron DeSantis is easily the best presidential candidate of my lifetime, which began when Carter was still in office.

Iowans have an incredible opportunity and privilege to have an outsized impact on the future of the free world. I ask you to join me in support of Ron DeSantis for president.

Matt Wells

Washington