Rep. Randy Feenstra to host Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at Family Picnic in Sioux Center [Video]

SIOUX CENTER, Iowa — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to appear as the featured guest at Republican Congressman Randy Feenstra’s third-annual Family Picnic on May 13 at the Dean Family Classic Car Museum in Sioux Center.

The trip would be DeSantis’ second to Iowa since the start of 2023 and his first to Siouxland. Feenstra, a Fourth Congressional District Representative in his second term, made the event announcement on Twitter Wednesday morning.

Though DeSantis, a two-term incumbent, hasn’t officially declared as a candidate for the 2024 presidential election, polling averages from firms such as Morning Consult show him having the second-best support among GOP primary voters after former President Donald Trump. 

In recent weeks, Trump has ratcheted up attacks on the presumptive candidate and called him an “average governor” leading a state “among the worst in the country” on crime and education.

Feenstra’s event …