Donald Trump wins Iowa caucuses in opening salvo for Republican nomination
Donald Trump decisively won the Iowa caucuses on Monday with his closest rivals languishing far behind, a crucial victory that reinforces the former president’s grip on his party at the outset of the GOP’s 2024 nomination fight.It was not immediately clear who would emerge as the second-place finisher, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or former U.N.
Ambassador Nikki Haley. Caucus voters endured life-threatening cold and dangerous driving conditions to participate in meetings that unfolded in hundreds of schools, churches and community centers across the state.The results are just the first in what will be a monthslong effort for Trump to secure the GOP nomination a third consecutive time.
But the victory sends an unmistakable message to the Republican Party that the nomination is Trump’s to lose and crystalizes the challenge facing his GOP opponents.Trump was already looking ahead to a potential general election matchup against President Joe Biden as he addressed hundreds of cheering supporters at a caucus site at the Horizon Events Center in Clive, Iowa.“He is totally destroying our country,” Trump said of Biden. “We were a great nation three years ago and today people are laughing at us.”Biden’s team, meanwhile, announced that he and the Democratic National Committee raised more than $97 million in the last quarter of 2023 and finished the year with $117 million in the bank, an effort to demonstrate how Biden is preparing for a possible rematch while Trump is competing in the primary.DeSantis and Haley are competing to emerge as the top alternative to the former president.
Haley hopes to compete vigorously in New Hampshire, where she hopes to be more successful with the state’s independent voters heading into the Jan. 23
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