Posted on 01/15/2024 6:17:01 PM PST by Red Badger
Former President Donald Trump won the first GOP presidential voting contest of 2024 in Iowa on Monday by a wide margin, according to multiple reports.
Despite historically harsh weather conditions, Iowans turned out for Trump, putting him one step closer to the GOP nomination in the 2024 presidential election, according to multiple outlets. Trump is standing at 55% in the polls with former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley at 18.5% and Gov. Ron DeSantis at 17.9%, according to The Associated Press. (RELATED: Iowa Voters Say Trump Conviction Wouldn’t Affect Their Support: POLL)
The victory came despite popular Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds endorsing DeSantis in November, arguing that she didn’t believe the former president could win a general election against President Joe Biden.
A recent poll revealed that 61% of Iowans said that their support would not change if Trump was convicted in any of his trials, and 20% said their support for the former president would increase if Trump was convicted.
Trump did not hold as many events as his fellow candidates, holding only 13 events since November, according to NBC News.
DeSantis and Ramaswamy have both completed the “full Grassley” of Iowa’s 99 counties named after Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who makes the trip every year.
Trump is currently polling at an average of 61% nationally and nearly 44% on average in the next primary battle in New Hampshire, according to RealClearPolitics. Trump also revealed Wednesday during a town hall on FOX News that he has picked his vice presidential running mate, but his campaign walked the comments back, saying that the matter hasn’t been discussed in “any great detail,” according to ABC News.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Not even broken glass... Just cold weather!
Take that, never trumpers.
How do they call this with only 2% in?
Just curious, not complaining😁
They have spotters in all the precincts.............
Metro areas are counted first, the more rural, the more red...
68% of Iowans polled said Biden’s 2020 election was illegitimate too.
A reckoning is coming.
DeSantis bragged about 30,000 caucus pledges, when the total vote count will be around 200,000.
“named after Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who makes the trip every year.”
Good for Chuck.
Depends on if he gets out beyond the local Pols.
I just left my caucus...Trump won with 80% of the vote in this one caucus..maybe that’s how.
It's a bad sign for this POS banana republic that we live in, when 80% of the opposition party realizes that "the law" in this cr@phole is fake garbage and totally political.
Of course, we also have our noses rubbed in the unprosecuted lawbreaking by the illegal aliens daily, too.
I think that is backwards. Rural areas, because they are small, are counted first.
I see it’s currently Desantis 23 vs Niki 20.
I hope DS beats Nikki, just because I hate that witch so much.
Hey, Cristie got 19!..........................votes.................
We The People apparently have finally learned not to listen to the parasites who think they should be telling us how to live our lives. They have gone too far.
‘other’ got 35!.................
Apparently Trump has won in Iowa by a decisive margin.
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