“Our thinking is we’re kind of the advance team for Trump if any of these, you know, Chris Christie, Nikki Haley kind of like half-Trumpers or Never Trumpers try to run,” Gaetz told Vanity Fair. “I’ve talked to the president about it. Marjorie has talked to the president about it. And he likes the idea of having the energetic characters in our party out there in the early-primary states keeping the band in tune, if you will.”

Greene and Gaetz began their monthslong tour of the country in May at The Villages, a conservative retirement community in Florida, and recently held a rally in Des Moines.

Greene opened the event at The Villages by asking the attendees to shout out the name of “your president,” prompting them to yell “Donald Trump!”

“If Adam Kinzinger wants to be the front man for the establishment to bring our party back to the days of Mitt Romney and John Kasich, you know what, I’m not going back,” Gaetz told the crowd at The Villages. “This is Donald Trump’s party, and I’m a Donald Trump Republican.”