What Trump’s Victory in Iowa Reveals

Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. Donald Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucus was as dominant as expected, underscoring the exceedingly narrow path available to any of the Republican forces hoping to prevent his third consecutive nomination. And yet, for all Trump’s strength within the party, the results also hinted at some of the risks the GOP will face if it nominates him again. Based on Trump’s overwhelming lead in the poll conducted of voters on their way into the voting, the cable networks…

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The Most Dangerous Democrat in Iowa

The third graders were not interested in meeting the state auditor. It was career day at Samuelson Elementary School in Des Moines, and Rob Sand had assembled a table in the gymnasium alongside a dozen other grown-ups with jobs. All the other adults had brought props: the man from the bathroom-remodeling company handed out yellow rubber ducks, a local doctor let the kids poke and prod a model heart, and an engineer showed off a long, silly-looking tube that had something to do with the mass production of hot dogs.…

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Iowa Is Closer Than Ever to Losing Its Place

Every few years for the past four decades, Iowa’s prime placement in American politics has come under threat. The arguments against Iowa’s outsize role in choosing each party’s nominee for president are always the same: The state is too white—90.6 percent white, to be exact—making it completely unrepresentative of the American electorate. Caucuses are messy and volunteer-led, meaning that the process is vulnerable to all kinds of problems (see the great caucus disaster of 2020). Plus, it’s cold as hell in February in Iowa, not exactly the weather most conducive…

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Donald Trump tells thousands at a rally in Iowa, ‘We’re going to take America back’ – Des Moines Register

Donald Trump tells thousands at a rally in Iowa, ‘We’re going to take America back’  Des Moines Register Former President Donald Trump endorses Chuck Grassley for U.S. Senate  UI The Daily Iowan Trump endorses re-election of Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley  Reuters Trump to hold rally in Des Moines, Iowa, potentially promoting 2024 run  Press TV Trump Iowa Rally: ’Republicans Have to Stay Strong, Fight, Bring Our Country Back’  Sputnik International View Full Coverage on Google News “us president” – Google News

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