FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WON THE 2024 IOWA REPUBLICAN PARTY’S CAUCUSES BY A HISTORIC MARGIN ON MONDAY. FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS FINISHED A DISTANT SECOND.
WIN1 OC….A CROWD :12
TRUMP FINISHED SECOND IN THE 2016 IOWA CAUCUSES WITH ABOUT 24 PERCENT SUPPORT.
HE EASILY WON IOWA IN THE GENERAL ELECTION IN 2016 AND 2020 — AND SURPASSED 51 PERCENT IN LAST (MONDAY) NIGHT’S CAUCUSES.
WIN2 OC….MAYBE :18
TRUMP CALLED FOR UNITY AS THE RACE MOVES FORWARD.
WIN3 OC….WITNESSING :20
TRUMP, WHO CALLED HIS COMPETITORS DESANTIS AND NIKKI HALEY VERY SMART, CAPABLE PEOPLE, THANKED HIS FAMILY AND THE CAMPAIGN STAFF.
TRUMP WON 98 OF 99 IOWA COUNTIES.
HE LOST JOHNSON COUNTY BY ONE VOTE.
DESANTIS FINISHED WITH JUST OVER 21 PERCENT SUPPORT — NEARLY TWO POINTS AHEAD OF FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY.
UPDATED 1:13pm 1/16/24
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WITH JUST OVER 86% OF THE BALLOTS COUNTED STATEWIDE, AS OF 10:20 P.M. DONALD TRUMP WON THE REPUBLICAN IOWA CAUCUSES IN THE FIRST POLITICAL EVENT OF 2024 TO NOMINATE THE PARTY’S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
THE FORMER PRESIDENT WAS THE CHOICE OF 52,009 GOP CAUCUS PARTICIPANTS, GARNERING A COMMANDING 50.9 %.AND LEADING IN 98 COUNTIES WITH ONLY JEFFERSON COUNTY LEFT TO REPORT ANY RESULTS.
FLORIIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS IS IN SECOND WITH 21.3% ON 21,806 VOTES.
NIKKI HALEY IS 3RD WITH 19.1% ON 19,485 VOTES.
VIVEK RAMASWAMY IS A DISTANT 4TH, WITH 7.7% ON 7886 VOTES.
RYAN BINKLEY WAS 5TH WITH 0.7% ON 724 VOTES.
THE CAMPAIGN OF RON DESANTIS RELEASED A STATEMENT THAT THEY WERE UPSET WITH NATIONAL MEDIA OUTLETS THEY SAY CALLED TRUMP THE WINNER TOO EARLY IN THE EVENING, AROUND 7:30 P.M..
AT 8:05 P.M. CENTRAL TIME, AN HOUR AFTER THE CAUCUSES BEGAN, DESANTIS’S CAMPAIGN RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING QUOTE:
“IT IS ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS THAT THE MEDIA WOULD PARTICIPATE IN ELECTION INTERFERENCE BY CALLING THE RACE BEFORE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF IOWANS EVEN HAD A CHANCE TO VOTE.
THE MEDIA IS IN THE TANK FOR TRUMP AND THIS IS THE MOST EGREGIOUS EXAMPLE YET.”- THAT FROM DESANTIS’S COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR ANDREW ROMEO.