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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 21:04:41 GMT -5
Current results...
Trump, 54.4% (22 delegates) DeSantis, 19.5% (8 delegates) Haley, 17.5% (7 delegates) Ramaswamy, 7.5% (3 delegates) Hutchinson, 1.1%
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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 21:11:10 GMT -5
(The Guardian) The Trump camp is celebrating a victory. “The people of Iowa sent a clear message tonight: Donald Trump will be the next Republican nominee for President. It’s now time to make him the next President of the United States,” said Alex Pfeiffer, communications director for Make America Great Again Inc, the Super PAC backing Trump. “It’s time for Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and Vivek Ramaswamy to face reality and stop wasting time and resources.”
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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 21:14:30 GMT -5
Current results...
Trump, 52.9& (21 delegates) DeSantis, 21.4% (8 delegates) Haley, 17.6% (7 delegates) Ramaswamy, 7.2% (3 delegates) Hutchinson, 1.9% (1 delegate)
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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 21:16:04 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Correspondent Chris Stein: In Malcolm, chemical company worker Brad Hamilton, 53, used to support Nikki Haley, but was pulled into Ron DeSantis‘s camp after seeing him speak at the Iowa state fair. Hamilton voted for DeSantis at his caucus site in Malcolm, where he came in a close second to Donald Trump, because he thought the Florida governor would be more effective at governing in Washington than Trump, who he had supported in the past. “It’s just a friggin clown show right now,” Hamilton told me after the vote. “It would be nice to have smoother politics.” Saying he was concerned about foreign militant groups like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, Hamilton, an army veteran, said American needed to look strong on the world stage, and believed DeSantis could achieve that. “For some reason, I think we’ve come at the world with a look of weakness,” he said. “I think we need to calm this whole world down. It’s getting out of hand.”
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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 21:27:12 GMT -5
Current results...
Trump, 51.3% (20 delegates) DeSantis, 21.6% (9 delegates) Haley, 19.2% (8 delegates) Ramaswamy, 7.1% (3 delegates) Hutchinson, 0.8%
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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 21:27:57 GMT -5
(The Guardian) The DeSantis campaign isn’t too happy with the AP’s call in favor of Trump. “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 communications director Andrew Romeo. “The media is in the tank for Trump and this is the most egregious example yet.” ( To be clear: The AP’s projection in favor of Trump does not amount to interference, and was based on polls and early results)
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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 21:56:15 GMT -5
Voters walk into a caucus site at Interstate-35 High School in Truro, Iowa. Photograph: Lily Smith/AP Nancy Voigt speaks on behalf of Ron DeSantis during a caucus at the home of Silver City Mayor Sharon McNutt and her husband Gary. Photograph: Scott Morgan/Reuters
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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 21:57:22 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Farmer Jane Axmear said she was one of four people at the Malcolm caucus to vote for Nikki Haley because the former South Carolina governor is the best choice to protect “women’s rights” – including access to abortions. “What’s right for some people isn’t right for everyone,” the 57-year-old said of efforts by Republican elected officials nationwide to ban the procedure, or at thresholds so early that they’re before most women realize they are pregnant. “A 12-year-old shouldn’t be forced to have a kid because she made a mistake,” Axmear said. The question of abortion access has vexed Republicans ever since the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, and is also credited with giving momentum to Democratic candidates who have campaigned on restoring the former precedent. Haley has suggested that, as president, she would support any abortion restrictions that Congress approves, while saying such legislation was unlikely to be passed. Asked why she wasn’t considering voting for Joe Biden and the Democrats, Axmear said the party’s philosophy on other issues did not appeal to her as a corn, soy and cattle farmer. “I don’t believe in a handout,” she said. “In farming, you take a risk everyday.”
Retired farmer Ron Osborn‘s reason for supporting Donald Trump, who won the most votes in Malcolm, was simple. “I think he’s the only one who can beat the cheating Democrats,” the 73-year-old said. Terry Stanek said he had voted the same way because he believed Trump is “the only one who wants to build the wall, wipe out the cartels and stop the fentanyl” as well as reduce inflation. To the 67-year-old, who restores classic cars, Trump’s four years in office were a far more placid period than the tumult he sees today, specifically the conflict between Israel and Hamas, and Joe Biden‘s chaotic withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in 2021. “You know, when Trump was in office, it was a calm planet,” Stanek said. He believed the former president can best the current one in November “if it’s a fair election.” “If it’s not a fair election, no one can beat him,” Stanek said.
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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 22:00:15 GMT -5
Current results... Trump, 52.8% (21 delegates) DeSantis, 20% (8 delegates) Haley, 18.7% (8 delegates) Ramaswamy, 7.7% (3 delegates) Hutchinson, 0.8%
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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 22:01:18 GMT -5
(The Guardian) The Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump Republican group, said that the results today make clear that Trump will win the nomination. “It’s been obvious for months that Trump would crush his rivals and will win the nomination. Dems and independents must wake up to the threat he poses. He will destroy individual rights and empower dictators overseas. Biden is the only one who can stop him and keep America safe,” said Gregory Minchak, the group’s communications director.
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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 22:11:09 GMT -5
Ron DeSantis, right, speaks during a campaign event at Jerseys Pub and Grub in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Photograph: Nick Rohlman/AP A supporter in a wall-printed suit and a MAGA hat awaited Donald Trump, who plans to speak at a Des Moines caucus night party. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP
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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 22:14:35 GMT -5
Current results... Trump, 53.3% (21 delegates) DeSantis, 20% (8 delegates) Haley, 18.2% (7 delegates) Ramaswamy, 7.6% (3 delegates) Hutchinson, 0.9% (1 delegate)
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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 22:17:58 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Economy, border, foreign policy: key issues for IowansDavid Erlacher hadn’t made up his mind about who he was going to caucus for when he showed up to a Cedar Rapids brewery to hear Ron DeSantis speak on Sunday afternoon. But inside his jacket pocket was a handwritten list of issues that mattered most to him. At the top was the economy, followed by the southern border. He then listed a series of foreign policy conflicts, including the Houthi attacks in Yemen, the war in Israel, and the war between Ukraine and Russia. “The world’s a dumpster fire right now,” Erlacher, a 76-year-old retiree who lives in Cedar Rapids, said. “We got to try and find some water to throw on it. I’m not sure how that’s gonna happen. I’m just glad there’s smarter people than myself out there to do it.” Those three priorities – the economy, the border and international instability – echoed what many Iowa voters said were their top issues as they prepare to caucus in the US’s first nominating contest on Monday, with Donald Trump, Nikki Haley and DeSantis at the top. A November Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll found that 81% of likely caucus-goers listed the economy as a “very important issue” and 80% of caucus-goers listed “immigration and border security as “very important issues” in the same poll. Concerns over the economy underscore a significant challenge for Joe Biden as he seeks a second term. Traditional metrics have shown that the US economy is strong, but nearly two-thirds of Americans are unhappy with it, according to a September Harris survey conducted by the Guardian. Kevin Hochstedler, 65, who works in home construction in Iowa City, was one of several voters who said his top issues were “number one the economy, number two, southern border”. Hochstedler, who planned to caucus for Haley, said he had seen a huge slowdown in his industry. He blamed the federal reserve for raising interest rates too quickly. “The economy is slowing, slowing, slowing, it’s like a giant sucking sound,” Hochstedler said at a Saturday event for Haley, whom he planned to support on Monday. Hochstedler was one of several voters who said they were outraged by Biden’s handling of migrants at the US-Mexico border. He said he supported the state of Texas in an ongoing dispute with the Biden administration over policing the border. “If I were governor of Texas, I’d call in the national guard, block it all off and keep the people in Mexico.”
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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 22:24:24 GMT -5
Current results... Trump, 53.9% (22 delegates) DeSantis, 19.9% (8 delegates) Haley, 17.7% (7 delegates) Ramaswamy, 7.5% (3 delegates) Hutchinson, 1%
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Post by Webster on Jan 15, 2024 22:31:41 GMT -5
(Associated Press) Trump, DeSantis and Haley are awarded their first delegates of 2024DES MOINES— The Associated Press has allocated 16 of Iowa’s 40 delegates to Trump and four delegates each to Haley and DeSantis. These two dozen delegates represent 60% of the state’s total. Delegates will cast their votes at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this summer. The way delegates are awarded differs by state, and in Iowa, the delegates are awarded proportionally based on the statewide vote. There are no minimum thresholds candidates need to reach in order to win delegates in Iowa. As of 10:05 p.m. Eastern time, with nearly 40% of the expected vote counted, Trump is receiving a majority of the vote. Based on the AP’s analysis of the initial vote and its AP VoteCast survey, Trump will win at least 40% of the vote in Iowa, and DeSantis and Haley will each win at least 10%. The AP will allocate the state’s remaining delegates as more of the vote is counted.
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