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OK, when I saw this photo of Scott Wagner, the CEO and chairman of DeSantis's Super PAC, busy working on a 1,000 piece puzzle in the critical days leading up to the Iowa Caucus (this photo is from January 9), I just had to laugh. It's not like he was working on this during lunch breaks either. He apparently spent hours a day working on it. But even if it was only during breaks, the optics of it is just terrible. This is such a humiliating and sad way for a once promising presidential campaign to end. And yes, it...

Out of 271 responses of Independent voters, 58 percent also agreed with the sentiment. . An entrance poll of Iowa GOP Caucus goers has revealed that 66 percent of those who went did not think President Joe Biden was legitimately elected. The entrance polling, conducted by CNN, asked respondents "Do you think Biden legitimately won in 2020?" Out of over 1,600 respondents, 66 percent answered "no." Among those who voted for former President Donald Trump in the Caucuses, 69 percent of them answered the same. Out of 271 responses from Independent voters, a majority of 58 percent also agreed with...

The candidates' late slogging through the snow may not have mattered Strong conservatives, older voters, MAGA fans, 2020 election deniers and less-educated Iowa Republicans piled in to help Donald Trump win Iowa's Republican caucuses on Monday night amid punishingly cold weather and depressed overall turnout, according to an analysis of entrance poll results. The former president -- despite spending relatively minimal time in the state, despite past indications that the base was considering other options and despite notable challengers, who spent months campaigning against him -- had by far the widest margin of victory in any meaningfully contested Iowa Republican...

Iowa Republicans were a clear reflection of that on Monday night, delivering the former president an emphatic victory. They channeled his anger, and his view that basically everything President Joe Biden has done has been a “disaster.” He’s convinced many Republicans he didn’t really lose the 2020 election to Biden, repeatedly making false claims, and has dominated the race the way someone still in office does. With its more moderate, educated electorate, New Hampshire presents Trump’s rivals with possibly their best opportunity to slow his march. Indeed, about two-thirds of caucusgoers said they felt their finances were holding steady or...

Thank you, Iowa! We have had an amazing 11 months here in the Hawkeye State. I came to Iowa early and often. And I kept coming back . . . even though the cold weather is brutal. The kindness of Iowans will never be lost on me. You’re faithful, patriotic, hardworking Americans. At one point in this campaign, there were 14 of us running. I was at two percent in the polls. But tonight, Iowa did what Iowa does so well. The pundits will analyze the results from every angle. But when you look at how we are doing in...

Donald Trump urged the Republican party to unite behind him so he could 'take the country' back from Joe Biden after decimating his rivals in the Iowa caucuses on Monday night. The former president, 77, praised all of his fellow candidates and paid tribute to his family - including Melania's late mother-in-law - as he spoke to supporters after his 30-point win in the first primary contest. It took just half an hour for Trump's landslide victory to be called as thousands of his die-hard supporters turned up to vote in sub-zero temperatures and wind chills as low as minus...

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida lashed out at the media Monday after networks declared former President Donald Trump the winner before some caucus sites had started voting. “It is absolutely outrageous that the media would participate in election interference by calling the race before tens of thousands of Iowans even had a chance to vote,” said DeSantis spokesman Andrew Romeo. “The media is in the tank for Trump and this is the most egregious example yet.”The news broke at a caucus site here right around the same time a surrogate for Mr. DeSantis had taken...

Post See new posts Conversation Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11 Trump is winning ALL 99 counties in Iowa. Full spectrum WIN.

On the eve of the Iowa Republican caucus, the New York Times editorial board begged Republicans to abandon 2024 frontrunner former President Donald Trump in a piece Monday morning. In the piece titled “The Responsibility of Republican Voters,” the left-wing newspaper tried to guilt Republicans into supporting someone else.

CBS News projects former President Donald Trump will win the Iowa caucuses. According to early interviews conducted with voters heading into the Iowa caucuses, immigration is what's most motivating Iowa Republicans to the caucuses, followed by the economy. GOP voters said they also want someone who shares their values — and Trump's legal woes are not a problem for most. Just 40 delegates — out of over 2,400 nationwide — are at stake in the Iowa caucuses on Monday night, but it will be the first measure of how the Republican field stacks up in the 2024 primary season. Iowa...

Former President Donald Trump won the first GOP presidential voting contest of 2024 in Iowa on Monday by a wide margin, according to multiple reports. Despite historically harsh weather conditions, Iowans turned out for Trump, putting him one step closer to the GOP nomination in the 2024 presidential election, according to multiple outlets. Trump is standing at 55% in the polls with former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley at 18.5% and Gov. Ron DeSantis at 17.9%, according to The Associated Press. (RELATED: Iowa Voters Say Trump Conviction Wouldn’t Affect Their Support: POLL) The victory came despite popular Republican Gov. Kim...

DeSantis was on the latest This Week on ABC and told host Jon Karl that Trump wants a party defined solely by loyalty to him, and not by commitment to principles or “delivering” on them for voters. “Is that what’s going on?” asked Karl. “Because we are now seeing this stampede of elected Republican officials endorsing Donald Trump.” DESANTIS: Well, you’ll have to ask them. I mean, I can tell you this. I mean, I do know elected officials who encouraged me to run and say they’re going to vote for me in a primary, but yet have endorsed Donald...

Nobody did it. Probably, at least. It’s the morning of the Iowa caucus and, in the words of the Des Moines Register, “Donald Trump retains a commanding lead.” This comes according to the outlet’s latest poll, which shows Trump with a staggering 28-point advantage going into the “coldest caucus” in years. This should chill the Beltway most of all. The Des Moines Register now puts Ron DeSantis in third place at 16 percent, down four points to Nikki Haley, a number just outside the margin of error. This is a shocking failure on the part of DeSantis, a successful populist...

The Governor worries Donald Trump and Nikki Haley now won't bother to debate him in the Granite State, where he trails badly. Gov. Ron DeSantis denies that he was “petrified” by the news Chris Christie was suspending his presidential run, but he is admitting in Iowa that he would have preferred a different outcome. DeSantis wanted the former New Jersey Governor in the race to ensure a televised debate in New Hampshire actually happens, an outcome apparently in doubt now. “I wanted him to stay in because I think if he was in the WMUR debate on Thursday and I...

"I noticed that he threw -- um -- Vivek under the bus. I've seen a candidate run for an office and basically campaign for another candidate in the same race before, but that's what's happened. And the minute he wasn't useful they dropped the hammer on him. That's just the way they are. We're going to go forward as a party. We can go forward in a way that's focused on peoples' issues and a great agenda for America, or we can go forward with Trump, which will be focused, the 2024 election, on legal issues, criminal trials, convictions, on...

DES MOINES — Some Iowa Democrats and independents are planning to crash the state's Republican caucuses Monday night and become "Republicans for a day" to vote for Nikki Haley — but mostly, against former President Trump. Why it matters: It's unclear how many will show up, but "crossover" voting is a low-key tradition in Iowa's caucuses — and it's one of the big unknowns heading into Monday, along with how the dangerously cold weather will affect things. How it works: Iowa allows day-of party registration for voters, and Democrats aren't holding in-person presidential caucuses this year. That's given mischievous anti-Trump...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Hourlong lines in the cold, authorized and unauthorized Make America Great Again merchandise, highly produced “how to caucus” videos — former President Donald Trump may be the messenger, but he has undisputedly inspired a movement. That is what Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley are up against in Iowa as Trump averages a 30 percentage point advantage on his primary opponents before the Republican Party’s 2024 opening nominating contest on Monday. Before Trump’s Mason City rally last weekend, Debbie Neuberger, who read about the campaign stop in “the newspaper,” underscored how most...

Thought someone should start a live thread about today's festivities.

<p>The former president assembled a cadre of celebrity endorsers and members of Congress backing him for the final push in Iowa, including WWE star Kane, British politician Nigel Farage and longtime Iowa wrestling coach Dan Gable.</p><p>Trump also introduced North Dakota governor and former presidential candidate Doug Burgum, who endorsed the former president. Burgum said the front-runner will "deliver energy dominance" to the nation.for hours in wind chills that reached the mid-negative 40s.</p>

The final Emerson College Polling Iowa survey finds 55% of Republican caucus voters plan to support Donald Trump on Monday evening, while 21% support Nikki Haley, and 15% Ron DeSantis. Five percent support Vivek Ramaswamy and 2% Asa Hutchinson. Four percent are undecided. Since the last Emerson Iowa poll in December, Trump’s support has increased five points, from 50% to 55%, while Haley’s support increased four points, from 17% to 21%. DeSantis held his 15% support, and Ramaswamy’s support fell three points, from 8% to 5%.