Former president Donald Trump scored a record win in the Iowa caucuses to cement his crushing domination of the 2024 Republican presidential race, as the field narrowed heading into next week’s New Hampshire primaries.
Trump adopted an unusually conciliatory tone after his strong win amid a depressed turnout caused by temperatures plunging as low as -25C in the midwestern state, the first to see Republican voters choose their preferred candidate to run against Joe Biden in November.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis finished a distant second, just ahead of former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, who is battling with DeSantis to stay in the race and hope that Trump gets tripped up his many legal battles. Hard-right entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who flickered in early debates last year, dropped out and endorsed Trump.
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Having vowed “vengeance” against his political opponents in recent months, and spoken of immigrants “poisoning the blood” of America, Trump offered a message of unity in his 20-minute victory speech in Iowa’s state capital Des Moines.
“We want to come together, whether it’s Republican or Democrat or liberal or conservative,” he said. “We’re going to come together. It’s going to happen soon.”
Source: Evening Standard
