Donald Trump was the big winner of tonight's Iowa presidential
caucuses. The very first votes being cast in the
2024 presidential contest showed Trump not only more than doubling
up any of his nearest competitors but getting more than
50% of the vote. This has been an incredible
experience. The people have been. This is the
third time, but this is the biggest one.
The margin of victory for Donald Trump in tonight's Iowa
caucuses is the largest margin of victory in the history
of competitive caucuses in Iowa, which goes back about
50 years. Florida, Governor Rhonda Santa with most
of the vote counted was in second place with about
21% of the vote. That's about 30 points behind
Donald Trump. But it was really important for the
Santa campaign to at least come in second in this
first vote in part because he had really staked his
entire campaign on Iowa because of your support. In
spite of all of that, that they threw at
us, everyone against us. We've got our ticket
punched out of, we represent a chance to reverse
the madness that we've seen in this country to reverse
the decline of this country and to give this country
a new birth of freedom and a restoration of sanity
. That's what we are going to do with Haley
falling into third. Haley claimed that she should be
the one to go, one on one with Trump
going forward her campaign pointing out that the race is
about to move into less friendly territory for Trump.
I made this Republican primary a two person race and
the question before Americans is now very clear. Do
you want more of the same or do you want
a new generation of conservatives to the Iowa? The
Iowa caucuses are obviously significant because it's the first time
we have actual voters weighing in expressing their preferences and
casting their votes to determine the nominee care about.
I think this is especially significant because Trump has wrapped
up such a dominating victory. He's ahead in New
Hampshire, he's ahead in South Carolina. He's ahead
in all of the states that, that have yet
to vote. So it could well be that we
see him sweep through the rest of the primaries and
wrap up the nomination in very short order. Now
, Nikki Haley and Rhonda Santa, his nearest competitors
obviously hope that's not the case. They are both
arguing that it is not too late for someone to
defeat Donald Trump.