Democrats seize on Iowa results to campaign on threats posed by Trump
Top Democrats did not react to Donald Trump’s crushing win in the Iowa caucuses on Monday with the dismay that might have been expected. Instead, the victory of the twice-impeached, 91-times criminally charged former president was heralded as an early beginning to the battle for the White House itself.
Called early, Trump’s victory came by 30 points over the hard-right Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, who edged the former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley for second. Only one of 99 Iowa counties did not go for Trump: Johnson county, which includes the University of Iowa, was won by Haley, the relative moderate left in the race – by a single vote.
Responding to Trump’s win, and using an acronym for Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America great again”, Biden told followers: “Here’s the thing: this election was always going to be you and me versus extreme Maga Republicans. It was true yesterday and it’ll be true tomorrow.”
~15% of Republicans came out to vote in Iowa.
Half voted Trump: 7%.
Republicans make up 34.5% of total voters in Iowa.
7% of 34.5% is 2.415% of Iowans who actually voted for Trump.
This is a crushing defeat for Trump and the entire Republican party.
In any sane political system this whole thing would not be more than a minor news item in the local press.
I mean, yeah, but it's a caucus in a primary with an heir apparent and was held on a night with horrific weather. I don't think we can conclude that much.