Former President Donald Trump achieved a record-setting victory in Monday evening’s 2024 Iowa Republican Caucus with 51 percent of the vote, finishing just under 30 points ahead of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and winning all but one of Iowa’s 99 counties.
In his victory speech Monday night, Trump emphasized a message of unity and congratulated DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, saying “I think they both did very well.”
“I really think this is time now for everybody, our country, to come together,” Trump said. “Whether it’s Republican or Democrat, or liberal or conservative, it would be so nice if we could come together and straighten out the world, and straighten out the problems.”
DeSantis, who spent much of his campaign’s resources and time in the Hawkeye state, just managed to edge out Haley for a second place finish, receiving 21.2 percent of the vote over Haley’s 19.1 percent.
The Florida governor’s message to his supporters at the end of the evening was that he had successfully gotten his “ticket punched out of Iowa” to continue seeking the Republican presidential nomination.
DeSantis also criticized the media for calling the Iowa Caucus for Donald Trump “before people even got a chance to vote.”
CBS, NBC, Associated Press and several other outlets projected Trump to be the winner of the Iowa Caucus at around 8:30 p.m. EST, when just a few hundred votes had been tallied.
Nikki Haley, who has focused her campaign’s resources into New Hampshire — which is set to have its first-in-the-nation Republican primary election next Tuesday, Jan. 23 — told her supporters Monday that “Iowa made this Republican primary a two person race.”
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Haley is expected to have a much stronger performance in New Hampshire than in Iowa — the current Real Clear Politics New Hampshire primary polling average has her trailing Trump by about 14 points, having surged ahead of DeSantis and the now-dropped out Chris Christie.
Although two additional GOP primary debates are slated to take place this week between DeSantis and Haley, Haley announced Tuesday morning that she will not join any more debates unless she is facing off against either Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
DeSantis responded to Haley by slamming her for being “afraid to debate because she doesn’t want to answer the tough questions such as how she got rich off Boeing after giving them millions in taxpayer handouts as governor of South Carolina.”
“The reality is that she is not running for the nomination, she’s running to be Trump’s [vice president],” DeSantis wrote on X Tuesday, adding that he looks forward to “debating two empty podiums in the Granite State this week.”
Political outsider and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy had a disappointing night, failing to achieve an upset strong showing in Iowa — despite his vigorous campaigning which saw him visit each of the state’s 99 counties twice.
After receiving only 7.7 percent of the vote and finishing in fourth place, Ramaswamy announced Monday night to his supporters in Des Moines that he is suspending his presidential campaign and endorsing Trump.
“There is no path for me to be the next president, absent things that we don’t want to see happen in this country,” Ramaswamy said.
“This has to be an America first candidate in that White House,” he said. “As I’ve said since the beginning, there are two America first candidates in this race, and earlier tonight I called Donald Trump to tell him that I congratulate him on his victory, and now going forward he will have my full endorsement for the presidency.”
Apparently, being a Kashmir first Indian female, that’s not a naturalized U.S citizen, didn’t work out for Nimrata.
Don’t get too excited. Trump still has 49 more primaries. We Democrats skipped the primaries in order to focus on yours. Wait till you see what happens in Blue/Purple states. We’re organizing in droves right now to go out and vote in the states that allow us to for Haley.
Trump supporters are so blind and confident that they have no idea that this Primary election is another method for us to take down Trump.
Conner, Conner, Conner….it is clear that you exist solely to act as an agent provocateur regurgitating mindless dribble in the hopes of eliciting some type of nut job response that allows leftists such as yourself to then point a finger screaming I told you MAGA was bad.
Sadly for you most look upon you/your comments as a bad joke, and do not take anything that you say with any deeper ponderence than is there any debts of stupidity not reachable by those such as yourself. You could very well be looked upon as the Baghdad Ali of the leftist movement.
I know that it is hard for those such as yourself to see that your party is destroying itself, and that not only will President Trump be back in office, but that he has spent the last seven years setting up one of the largest Rico sting operations that the world has ever witnessed entrapping deep state players. Every court case that the corrupt DOJ brings against President Trump, he then uses as precedent to turn around to use against the corrupt establishment while he walks away cleared of any wrong doings.
Did you know that Biden has reauthorized President Trumps executive orders related to human trafficking, and election interference? Probably not as that requires too much research. However you can get some education as to the “going ons” by listening to Derek Johnson who has done great works on the subjects of military laws, executive orders, and PEADS that lay the groundwork for the continuity of government operations that are being played out in real time. Another good listen is Dr Jan Halper Haze that works as a contractor for the department of defense; she is a clinical psychologist tasked with gaging the public sentiment with an end goal of establishing the perfect time for the military to stand up, and submit those to justice who have acted treasonously through military tribunals.
Spoiler: Dr Halper thinks that leftist like yourself have no critical thought process; a thought shared by millions of others. It is very unlikely that there will be a 2024 presidential election, and if so it will be one managed by the US military highest commands. The daily diatribes that you engage in only serve to further reduce the number of your party along with the state level players adding the bakers dozen effect to this party affiliation decline. You might think that all these illegal aliens will bolster these loses, but again when President Trump reappears as President of the republic, not the President of the now bankrupted Corporation of America that the resident Biden now occupies, these people will not get a vote as they will be deported in mass along with eliminating other methods of cheating that the leftist party is so well versed in, and very good at.
I am personally enjoying this process because unlike yourself I see the entire system as being corrupted, something that you readily admit albeit not in those exact words, and this system is going down in flames. This is ultimately why there is so much hatred toward President Trump because the day of reckoning is quickly approaching , and when it is said and done many of those that those like yourself elevate will be in GITMO, executed for treason along with crimes against humanity, and an array of other criminal charges. The corrupt court system that the leftist currently use to their advantage will not be the system of judgement utilized as it has shown itself to be…well, corrupt which leaves military justice that is short and sweet.
So when I say that I laugh at your comments I am being completely truthful, but this laughter is not because of humor, but because of the complete void of any intellectual content, rational discourse, or reason which laughter substitutes for weeping for such lost souls.
So please answer this question: will you be here in this, or other forums after the complete self destruction of the leftist movement, or will you crawl back in the sewer hole hiding, and waiting for the next opportunity to levy destruction on society with worn out Marxist ideology?