The 2024 Iowa caucus was over before it started.
Former President Donald Trump solidified his position as the leading Republican presidential candidate on Monday when he secured victories in every county in the Hawkeye State.
Not only did Trump break the 50 percent threshold among the grassroots voters who turned out despite an arctic blast, but he won big across all demographics.
How candidates fare during the Iowa caucuses is often used to gauge their chances of winning their party’s nomination. Trump’s landslide victory on Monday indicates there’s only one candidate Iowa voters, who were skeptical of President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, trust to take on the Democrat regime up for re-election in November.
Trump went into the first official ballot tally of the 2024 election cycle with a double-digit lead on his primary opponents, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley. Less than one hour into the state’s ballot collection, Fox News, the Associated Press, CNN, CBS, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and others confirmed by calling Iowa for the former president that his on-the-ground performance matched the polls.
Since he announced his candidacy in November 2022, Trump never once lost his lead in the Republican primary. Even when Haley and DeSantis’ popularity margins grew 5 points over the last six months, Trump’s did too.
“The basic structure of the race has remained unchanged,” the Washington Examiner’s Byron York noted in his Monday morning newsletter.
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