It may or may not have meant a lot to him-— I don’t know-— But, I don’t see many Trump supporters abandoning him because he came in second in Iowa...
As Andre Agassi once said, “Losing hurts worse than winning feels good.”
I just think losing when he expected to win easily knocked him back on his heels.
Unfortunately, he was unable to control his rage afterwards, that’s what hurt him more than losing.