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Donald Trump soared to victory in the 2024 Iowa caucuses on Monday night, with a projected 51 per cent of the Republican vote.
The Associated Press and news networks called the race shortly after 8.30pm local time, while many counties were still in the midst of caucus meetings.
The former president won in 98 of 99 counties, with Nikki Haley beating him by just one vote to claim a victory in Johnson County.
Despite her win there, Ms Haley lost out to Ron DeSantis for second place, with both vowing to continue on to the New Hampshire primary.
Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the race and endorsed Mr Trump after securing less than eight per cent of the vote.
Life-threatening cold weather conditions appear to have impacted voter turnout as sub-zero temperatures and an extreme wind chill left most of the state in blizzard-like conditions.
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In final Iowa polling, Mr Trump held a substantial lead over the other candidates, which is precisely how matters played out on Monday.
President Joe Biden responded to Mr Trump’s landslide win in the Iowa caucuses, by warning American voters: “It’s going to be you and me vs extreme MAGA Republicans”.
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Key Points Iowa caucus results: Trump’s big win marks first step toward GOP nomination DeSantis campaign cries ‘election interference’ in Iowa Ramaswamy drops out of 2024 race – and endorses Trump Hutchinson suspends presidential campaign after woeful Iowa showing Haley beats Trump by one vote in Johnson County – ruining his clean sweep of caucuses How many counties did Trump win in Iowa?
Show latest update 1 hour ago Analysis: Trump’s election lies are thriving. His GOP rivals aren’t challenging them
Donald Trump’s supporters continue to adopt his bogus narrative that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, with nearly 70 per cent of his Iowa caucus voters falsely believing President Joe Biden was illegitimately elected.
Asked whether they believed President Biden was legitimately elected to the presidency in 2020, more than two-thirds of Iowa caucus goers said no, according to entrance polls from last night’s caucuses.
That includes 69 per cent of Iowa caucus goers who supported Mr Trump. Only 11 per cent of his supporters in Iowa believe the president was legitimately elected.
Mr Trump has relied on conspiracy theories and a fake narrative that the 2020 election was rigged against him to cast doubt on the legitimacy of elections he lost. Those false claims have since animated Republican campaigns for public offices across the country and GOP-drafted legislation in nearly every state to change how elections are run.
The false claims surrounding the 2020 election and the electoral process fuelled violence at the US Capitol on January 6, and the former president is facing criminal charges in Washington DC and in Georgia for his spurious attempts to overturn election results culminating in a mob that stormed the halls of Congress to do it by force.
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Alex Woodward 16 January 2024 20:20
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2 hours ago Haley says she will participate in a debate if it’s against Trump or Biden
Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley says she will only attend another debate if it’s against Donald Trump or President Joe Biden after coming in third place in the Iowa caucuses.
“We’ve had five great debates in this campaign. Unfortunately, Donald Trump has ducked all of them,” Haley said in a statement on Tuesday.
“He has nowhere left to hide. The next debate I do will either be with Donald Trump or with Joe Biden. I look forward to it.”
Kelly Rissman has more.
Nikki Haley says she will participate in a debate if it’s against Trump or Biden ‘We’ve had five great debates in this campaign. Unfortunately, Donald Trump has ducked all of them,’ Ms Haley said about the GOP frontrunner
Joe Sommerlad 16 January 2024 19:20
2 hours ago Analysis: Trump gets ‘best case scenario’ in Iowa as GOP field struggles to keep up
Trump ended up with what could be described as a “best-case scenario” after he won the Iowa caucuses by a historic margin.
Here’s Gustaf Kilander to analyse why the night’s events were so advantageous to the candidate.
Trump gets ‘best case scenario’ in Iowa as GOP field struggles to keep up ‘The convertibility of voters like that to anything other than the Trump view of the world is impossible,’ MSNBC host says
Joe Sommerlad 16 January 2024 18:50
3 hours ago How Iowa evangelicals rallied around Trump’s ‘holy war’
Here’s Alex Woodward on how the former president tied up the Christian conservative vote in the Hawkeye State.
How Iowa evangelicals rallied around Trump’s ‘holy war’ He convinced his supporters that his legal problems are their own as he speeds forward with a Christian nationalist agenda
Joe Sommerlad 16 January 2024 18:20
3 hours ago Former Trump allies who have said they won’t vote for him in 2024
While Trump has picked up endorsements from old foes like Marco Rubio in recent days, he also faces a growing list of ex-allies who have now ditched him, explicitly declaring opposition to a second Trump presidency.
Kelly Rissman takes a look at those who have dared to speak out.
Former Trump allies who have said they won’t vote for him in 2024 ‘I’ve never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I think that in this next election, I would put policy aside and choose democracy,’ said an ex-Trump White House aide
Joe Sommerlad 16 January 2024 17:50
4 hours ago Voices: DeSantis reaps the rewards of his cowardice – humiliation
Here’s Andrew Feinberg on the Florida governor’s unimpressive second-place finish in Iowa, just rewards, he says, for DeSantis’s failure to come out swinging against the front-runner.
DeSantis reaps the rewards of his cowardice: Humiliation The Florida governor was ‘DeFuture’ of his party once – but failing to exploit his rival’s glaring weaknesses has cost him dearly
Joe Sommerlad 16 January 2024 17:20
4 hours ago Ramaswamy for VP? Don’t count on it...
Now that the Trumpian biotech entrepreneur has suspended his campaign after a poor showing in Iowa, he is expected to step out on the campaign trial to endorse his idol as all eyes turn to New Hampshire.
But could he be in line for more than that? Might he even end up as Trump’s running mate?
“Pretty safe to say it won’t be Vivek,” Jason Miller, Trump’s senior adviser told The New York Post this week, immediately shooting down that idea.
But back in August, the former president had told a conservative TV host that he was seriously mulling Ramaswamy as a potential contender for the role, so what’s changed?
Martha McHardy has more.
Trump aide pours cold water on Ramaswamy’s VP chances ‘Pretty safe to say it won’t be Vivek,’ Jason Miller said
Joe Sommerlad 16 January 2024 16:50
5 hours ago Recap: Trump overwhelmingly wins the Iowa caucuses
If you’re just joining us, former president Donald Trump has overwhelmingly won the Iowa caucuses in the first official contest of this year’s Republican presidential primaries.
Trump posted a double-digit victory in Iowa eight years after he lost the caucuses to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. The front-runner far-outpaced his nearest competitors, Florida governor Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, who served as Trump’s US ambassador to the United Nations in his administration.
His victory in Iowa breaks Bob Dole’s record for a margin of victory of 13 points in 1996 and George W Bush’s 10.5-point victory in 2000. Both candidates went on to become the Republican nominee for president, a future that seems all but certain for Trump despite dozens of criminal charges against him.
Eric Garcia reports.
Trump overwhelmingly wins Iowa caucuses in first step toward Republican nomination Ex-president’s victory in Iowa will break Bob Dole’s record for a margin of victory of 13 points in 1996 and George W Bush’s 10.5-point victory in 2000
Joe Sommerlad 16 January 2024 16:20
5 hours ago Latest New Hampshire poll places Trump and Haley neck-and-neck
The Granite State’s primary next Tuesday could prove to be a great deal more competitive than Iowa, if the following turns out to be accurate.
Joe Sommerlad 16 January 2024 16:05
5 hours ago Breaking: Asa Hutchinson suspends presidential campaign after woeful Iowa showing
So farewell then, Asa “Aida” Hutchinson, we hardly knew ye.
Joe Sommerlad 16 January 2024 15:50
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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump stands on stage as he speaks at a caucus night party in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024
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