5 Takeaways From The Iowa GOP Caucuses
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Donald Trump’s challengers will only get so many chances to knock the de facto leader of the GOP off his pedestal, and they whiffed on a big one Monday.
Everything’s coming up Donald.
Well, at least in the Republican presidential contests. Former President Donald Trump remains under four separate criminal indictments and is still broadly unpopular with the national electorate, but it’s difficult to imagine the Iowa caucuses going better for him. Not only did he win by a record margin for a Republican, his two main competitors ― Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley ― each took just enough of the vote to insist they were his main rival in New Hampshire, the next state to vote, ensuring the field will remain divided against him.
Trump’s win was sweeping and dominant. According to the entrance polls conducted by major media organizations, he won every demographic group imaginable: the college-educated and those without a degree; men and women; urban, suburban and rural voters; and evangelical Christians. The only groups he didn’t win were moderates, who went with Haley, and voters ages 17 to 29, who backed DeSantis.
Trump won 98 of Iowa’s 99 counties, losing Johnson County, the home of the University of Iowa, by a single vote to Haley.
Oh, and Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur who competed with Trump for the votes of the very conspiratorial, dropped out of the race, likely handing most of this voters over to the former reality TV show star.
"We cannot be mesmerized by the worst things that we see happening," the transportation secretary said.
The president-elect had been set for sentencing next week.
At least 20 House Democrats are demanding increased transparency over reports that Israel is not treating all U.S. citizens equally, as first reported by HuffPost.
"It is interesting when you find out what a bridge too far for Donald Trump looks like," the MSNBC host said.
Scripps News' Liz Landers reminded the South Carolina Republican that Americans are facing "a lot of challenges" outside of bathrooms.
Donald Trump's daughter-in-law offered some advice for non-Trump voters but people weren't buying it.
The UFC boss helped the former president return to the White House but had a profanity-laced take on the process.
Tom Horman has been a fixture in the fever swamps of far-right media.
Kennedy has since apologized for the remarks, but with a staunchly pro-Trump twist.
The former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump took a not-so-subtle jab at Pete Hegseth over his "lecture" on the topic.
The New York Democrat used a brutal metaphor to describe her far-right Republican colleague.