Iowa caucus-It was A Trump LANDSLIDE & No ‘Surprise’

Surprise? There was no surprise in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus that arrived as the first vote of the coming 2024 presidential race.

The Iowa caucus was Donald J. Trump’s for the taking, long before the persecuted former president had 52.8% support with only 38% of the expected vote in.

At the end, Trump supporters came out in frigid Iowa weather in a hot win that mainstream and social media could not possibly hide or downplay.

Related: Vivek Ramaswamy suspends presidential campaign, endorses Trump after fourth-place finish

After all their boasts, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, with only 21.2% of the vote, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (19.0%) and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy (7.7%) should have been walloped by surprise.

How the media, certain special counsels and assorted RINOs must have hated the reality proving that the man they hate most was well on his way to recording the most stunning margin of victory in the modern history of the Iowa caucus, going way back back to 1972—to become the first Republican candidate to get more than 50% support in a contested caucus.

Lesson in the ignored snow and ice some hoped would keep people indoors: you can’t simply just wish a winner away.

Nor you can you simply wish voters away—or mess with every election.

It is for certain that the candidate egos of DeSantis and Haley can’t overcome people’s intent for whom they want to vote.

"Trump’s campaign had been planning on a blowout win in the first-in-the-nation caucus, with his team rolling out a “10 for Trump” strategy relying on caucus captains to recruit new or irregular participants to put their support behind the former president. (NY Post, Jan. 15, 2024)

As for the 11th-hour “surprise” that never came to pass:

“Iowa Republican Strategist David Kochel went on with CNN this frigid Monday morning to discuss the Republican Caucus being held tonight in Iowa. (Gateway Pundit, Jan. 15. 2024)

“Kochel, the former chief strategist from the Jeb Bush campaign, told CNN there may be a “surprise” in the works tonight in Iowa.

“CNN Host: I know I keep saying that there’s not so much suspense with Trump, but I have to say it does feel like, well, who knows? Maybe we are in for something of a surprise.

“David Kochel: It’s not just cold, though. We talked about this last week. This is painful. This is dangerous. In rural counties where they don’t get ploughed as quickly. You go in the ditch, your car is not coming out, your battery might be dead. This is really different. So I think we’ll see something a little bit lower than we saw before, which might produce a surprise, which is kind of what Iowa is famous for anyway, so we’ll see if that works.

“The early projection of a Trump victory, which happened after caucus meetings had begun but before many actual votes had been cast, infuriated the DeSantis camp, which accused the press of unduly influencing the outcome. (NY Post)

“I spoke before [approximately] 400 Iowans today at a caucus site and DeSantis won,” the Florida governor’s campaign manager James Uthmeier wrote on X. “However, they were getting news alerts of a ‘trump [sic] victory’ before speeches concluded or voting began.

“The media wants to taint this process and it’s sad for America. Wake up everyone.”

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The shocking outcome is a particular blow to DeSantis, who invested heavily in a ground game operation that failed to overcome the former president’s popularity among Iowa voters, particularly after Trump was hit with four criminal indictments beginning in March of last year.

“Despite the result, DeSantis told reporters earlier Monday he would remain in the race even if he finished third behind Trump and Haley.(NY Post)

“Haley, 51, had tried to avoid naming specific expectations for her performance, implying she would be happy with a top-three finish before moving on to New Hampshire — where the primary electorate is more moderate and less dominated by social conservatives and evangelicals than Iowa — and her home state of South Carolina.

Doesn’t that make Haley a candidate who would criticize voters in her own home state?

“The expectations that have been set is that Donald Trump is going to win over 50% of the vote, and Ron DeSantis is going to win,” former Texas Rep. Will Hurd, a top Haley surrogate, told The Post after last week’s debate between Haley and DeSantis at Drake University in Des Moines.

“Neither of those things can happen.”

DeSantis and Haley should put their political egos in their back pockets and recognize reality when it hits:

“On the coldest caucus night on record, Iowa Republicans braved snow, icy roads, and a wind chill that made it feel like negative-30 degrees Fahrenheit. (NY Post)

“Despite the near-dangerous conditions, the White House hopefuls had urged their supporters to show up to the in-person-only vote.”

The reality that happened in Iowa tonight includes the promise in the Trump campaign’s opening lines of the song played at the end of his rallies: ‘Hold On I’m Coming’.

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