2024-01-16 08:36:13
The former president of the United States, Donald Trump won the Iowa Republican caucuses this Monday with 51.1% of the votes of citizens linked to the Republican Party, according to US media projections corresponding to 94% of the vote.
Thus, Trump has achieved victory in all counties except one and 20 delegates have been obtained (with 55,432 votes), a figure much higher than that of the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantiswith eight delegates (23,054 votes, 21.2%), and the former US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haleywith four other delegates and the victory in Johnson County (20,687 votes, 19%), as reported by the CNN television network.
Trump’s victory in the coldest caucuses in Iowa history was so large that networks like CNN, NBC and Fox showed it just half an hour after the 700 voting centers (schools, churches and gyms, in particular) opened their doors. majority) where caucuses, a type of neighborhood assemblies, were held tonight.
After learning of his extensive victory (he won in all counties except one), Trump came out to celebrate with his followers at an event at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, the state capital.
There he offered a speech that began with words of unity: “Our country must unite. We want to unite. Whether Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative“It would be so good if we could come together and solve the world, solve the problems and put an end to all the death and destruction that we are seeing,” he said.
The former president has assured that he feels “reinforced” and “enormously honored” by the results, and has once again pointed out that Their goal is to “Make America Great Again” (‘Make America Great Again‘, his campaign slogan in English), just as he “did during his mandate.”
“I feel great. I feel very honored (…). We have to take back our country, (…) it has been through a lot of bad things in the last three years and continues to go through bad things,” Trump declared in a exclusive interview with the Fox News network.
DeSantis and Haley will continue competing
DeSantis has criticized the campaign against him, and has thanked voters for their support in giving him second place; Even so, he has regretted that “the Iowa ticket has been taken away from them.”
Haley has presented herself as a “renewing” option and has attacked the “advanced age” of Trump and the current president, Joe Bidenwhose policies “have deepened the American debt” and who have also failed in their vision of the country’s future.
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For its part, Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has announced his departure from the presidential race after tonight’s results (two delegates and 8,221 votes, which is 7.7%) and immediately afterwards has shown his support for Trump. The remaining candidate, Asa Hutchinsonwhich has obtained 190 votes (0.2%), has not spoken at the moment.
The president of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, a recognized ally of Trump, has congratulated the former president on his victory in Iowa, and has praised voters for the harsh weather conditions in which they had to choose the Party’s candidate. Republican.
In addition, he has criticized the economic and border policies of the current president, Joe Biden, and has expressed that the country will improve with Trump, whose eventual victory in the presidential elections “will make the White House and Congress work together.” to build the wall and end Biden’s border crisis, reduce inflation, restore the growing economy and rebuild the Army“.
“His decisive and historic victory tonight should mobilize our party to close ranks so we can achieve victory in November,” Johnson said in a statement.
Primary calendar
The first appointment of the US primary calendar began this Monday with the forecast that Trump would win on a day marked by a “historic” cold of 20 degrees below zero, which has left intense frosts.
The former president himself had noted in the preview that he expected to have “a tremendous night” and had highlighted that “he has never seen spirit like the one there is now throughout the country, in Iowa.”
The calendar for the nomination of the Republican Party candidate includes primaries with traditional ballot box voting, but also caucuses, in which citizens linked to a certain party debate and choose their favorites, in some cases by show of hands and without the need for ballots.
In any case, the election is not direct, whether through primaries or caucuses, What citizens are deciding is the composition of the delegation of said state in national conventionswhere the proclamation of the person who will represent the formation in the general elections will be formally carried out – this year the November 5th–.
The Republican Party will hold its convention between July 15 and 18 in Milwaukee (Wisconsin), while the Democrats will meet from August 19 to 22 in Chicago (Illinois).
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