Former US President Donald Trump has won the Iowa Republican caucuses 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 has won 20 delegates (with 55,432 votes), a figure much higher than that of the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, with 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.
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.”
“It’s time for our country to come together”
In a speech after learning of his victory in Iowa, Trump stated that it is time for the United States to “come together,” in a conciliatory message that was immediately followed by comments against immigrants.
Trump began his speech bragging about the great turnout in the caucusesthe first date of the Republican Party’s primary process for the White House, and the size of the crowd that gathered to see it at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, the state capital.
“Our country must unite. We want to unite. Whether Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, It would be so nice if we could come together and solve the worldsolve the problems and put an end to all the death and destruction that we are witnessing,” he said.
Trump gave a speech similar to what other candidates for the Republican presidential nomination would have given throughout history for the November elections, in which Democrat Joe Biden is running for re-election.
However, after thanking his family and remembering how his wife’s mother, Melania, recently died, the former president resumed his anti-immigrant rhetoric and said the country is suffering an “invasion” with the arrival of migrants to the southern border with Mexico.
His words were met with applause as his supporters shouted his name, wearing hats or waving “MAGA” flags, a reference to Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaign slogans: “Make America Great Again.” big again).
Among the audience were some figures from the far-right wing of the party.like Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Florida legislator Matt Gaetz and former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who has refused to acknowledge her defeat in 2022 for governor.
At the event, there were two huge screens proclaiming over and over again ‘TRUMP WINS IN IOWA!’ in white letters on a black background, before switching to the conservative network Fox News.
Source: Lasexta
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