Donald Trump I wanted to not only win; she was looking sweep the Iowa caucuses, the first electoral appointment in the Republican Party’s race to choose its nominee for the November presidential elections. He has achieved it, and in spades, leaving little room for doubt, if any, of his absolute favorite status in this race and the control he maintains over the conservative formation.
Another frigid day in this Midwestern state that has been plagued by snow, ice and dangerous arctic temperatures for days has been a night of fire for US politics. The former president has given his first triumphant step to him return to nomination, that puts him on the path to a more than likely reissue of the duel that he freed with Joe Biden in 2020.
Trump, then defeated by the Democrat in the presidential elections, and charged with 91 charges in four criminal cases, including two for his efforts to subvert those results, has prevailed with a overwhelming victory and, as he pursued, historical. Ron DeSantisthe remaining Florida governor second at a great distancey NIkki Haley, terceraare still in the running, but without no clear indication of what path may be opened to themthem and their followers, to stop Trump.
“Iowa, we love you, come out and buy bigger tractors and more land, Don’t worry about anything,” said an ecstatic and relaxed Trump to close his victory speech at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. Shortly before, he had referred for the first time in months with moderate respect to his rivals, whom he has refused to debate and has been full of insults, and even talked about unite the country as if he were already the presidential candidate, although he was quick to call Biden “the worst president in history.”
Making history
Trump’s celebration on a night that fell far short of breaking participation records (some 110,000 people voted compared to 186,000 in 2016) made perfect sense. Never before has a candidate, neither Republican nor Democrat, exceeded 50% of the vote in Iowa and he has taken the 51%. A single vote has taken away the icing on his cake of being declared the winner in all 99 counties of the state. And it has doubled the historical record of distance between candidates: DeSantis has remained at little more than 21% y Haley just above 19%.
It is not a good result for either of them, but DeSantis can see it from a relatively positive perspective: his determined commitment to Iowa, where he was fighting with Trump for the decisive evangelical vote and had established a powerful organization on the ground, has managed to stop the “momentum” that the former governor of South Carolina was experiencing and former Trump ambassador to the United Nations.
Of course, the next appointment is in just seven days in New Hampshireand there the only one that is close to Trump according to the polls is Haley,. In her speech after her results she insisted on portraying herself as an option for traditional Republicans and if the time comes to fight with Biden. “Both of them (Trump and the Democrat) lack a vision for the future of our country because they are both consumed by the past, the investigations, the vendettas…” she has said. “The US deserves better.”
An almost immediate controversial announcement
This holiday in honor of Martin Luther King had passed only 31 minutes since the appointments started in schools, churches and gyms where these assembly votes are held when the AP agency Trump was considered the winner. At that time there was only information reported from only six of the 1,657 precinctsbut other media soon followed, and mobile phone news alerts came in when some of those gathered had not even begun to vote.
This acceleration in declaring the winner outraged some voters of the other candidates, especially DeSantis. At the party prepared to await the results of his campaign at a hotel in West Des Moines, frustration was palpable among those attending and a spokesman for the governor of Florida spoke of “i“electoral interference” and of “absolute scandal”.
Strong man
In the winner’s field there was only cause for celebration. Iowa has served as usual to sift through the race a little more and this time it has done so in a way that can help Trump. Vivek Ramaswamythe billionaire entrepreneur who presented himself as a younger and, if possible, more radicalized version, has announced that he is withdraw after staying below 8%. In the following appointments it can be expected that his votes will be mostly transferred to the former president, and Ramaswamy has immediately given his support and will join him this Tuesday at a rally in New Hampshire.
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Above all, with the results, the former president confirms his image as a strong man, untouchable within the Republican Party, precisely one of the reasons that elevates him as an icon and myth of the MAGA movement (acronym for Make America Great Again).
These are some of the arguments that, for example, made Gabe Ingram vote for him this Monday, who at the age of 18 was making his debut in the democratic exercise of the caucuses at the Eternity church in Clive, a suburb of Des Moines. “Trump is extremely strong, no one can beat him“Biden makes us look weak to the world, he has sunk this country, and Trump has option to make the world fear us again“.
2024-01-16 08:20:17
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