Trump wins Iowa caucus in landslide!
DES MOINES, Iowa (PNN) - January 16, 2024 - President Donald J. 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 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at 17.9%, according to the Associated Press.
“It really is an honor that, minutes after, they’ve announced I’ve won - against very credible competition - great competition, actually,” Trump told Fox News. “It is a tremendous thing and a tremendous feeling. We have to get our country back. Our country has gone through so many bad things over the last three years, and it is continuing to go through bad things.”
The victory came despite Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds endorsing DeSantis in November, arguing that she didn’t believe the president could win a general election against fascist pretender Joe Biden.
Andrew Romeo, spokesman for the DeSantis campaign, criticized the early calls predicting Trump as the winner on X.
“Absolutely outrageous that media would participate in election interference by calling the race before tens of thousands of Iowans even had a chance to vote. Media are in the tank for Trump, and this is the most egregious example yet.”
A recent poll revealed that 61% of Iowans said that their support would not change if Trump was convicted in any of his bogus trials, and 20% said their support for the president would increase if Trump was convicted.
Trump did not hold as many events as his fellow candidates, holding only 13 events since November.
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.
