page_title: Bobby Jindal 2016 presidential campaign
section_title: Movement in Iowa
hierarchical_section_title: Bobby Jindal 2016 presidential campaign / Campaign / Movement in Iowa
caption_attribution_description: English: Bobby Jindal speaking at the Iowa GOP's Growth and Opportunity Party in Des Moines, Iowa on October 31, 2015.
context_page_description: The 2016 presidential campaign of Bobby Jindal, the 55th Governor of Louisiana, was announced on June 24, 2015. His candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election came after several years of speculation following the 2012 election. Jindal is the first Indian American and third Asian American to run for president of the United States.
  On November 17, 2015, Jindal announced that he was suspending his campaign for president.
context_section_description: Jindal has spoken several times of his campaign focusing on Iowa and building a movement there. Only three weeks into his campaign, Jindal had visited the state four times. Jindal stated that he viewed directly hearing from voters as the "only way to connect" with them. By October, Jindal had held 96 events in the state in just 55 days.
  The Jindal campaign noted that the candidate had a high favorability rating among potential Republican voters that were surveyed. A poll on July 22 showed Jindal was favored by these voters 51–7. Wes Anderson wrote in an announcement of Jindal's favorability among voters in the state, "Bottom line, Gov. Jindal has taken off in Iowa. No other candidate has seen as much positive movement as Jindal." On September 1, Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer called Jindal the "hidden winner" for increasing his favorability rating by 18 points since the last sampling which she attributed to his increased profile, though noted it was not translating into votes, adding, "He's kind of lurking there as having some upside potential."
  In early November, Jindal was also found to have a 60% favorability in Iowa, the third highest, only behind Ben Carson and Ted Cruz.
  Jindal's polling in the state throughout the entirety of his campaign ranged from the bottom of the field to average.
  A late July poll showed Jindal in fourth place, tied with Ben Carson. On November 2, 2015, a poll was released with Jindal faring better than he had previously been doing at 6%, noted by The Hill as being higher than Jeb Bush who had consistently been polling superior to Jindal since the announcement of his campaign months prior. On November 13, Jindal said the poll was the result of him having visited all of the state's counties and reported that his campaign was allowing everyone to ask questions, even sacrificing time for their participation.
  Despite low polling, Jindal publicly retained confidence in how he would fare in Iowa. In October 2015, Jindal said he believed his campaign was "doing very well" in the state and that he believed the race would change after the Iowa caucus. In addition, he predicted that he would win the state, which would "propel us forward to the nomination". Former Iowa Republican political director Craig Robinson  thought the campaign marched around the state instead of with its denizens.
  Had Jindal's prediction been correct, and he had won the state in February, his campaign would have been faced with having to use the victory to win the nomination, despite lacking in funds when compared to other competitors within the field.
caption: Jindal speaking at an event hosted by the Iowa Republican Party in October 2015.
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