POWER OF TRUMP: Trump Makes History As First-Ever Candidate To Win Over 50 Percent In Iowa

On Monday afternoon, leading 2024 presidential candidate and 45th President Donald Trump officially made history as the first-ever Republican or Democrat presidential candidate to win the Iowa caucuses with a majority of the vote despite below-freezing temperatures. The last time a candidate came close to winning the majority was in the 1984 Democrat caucus when Walter F. Mondale won 49 percent of the vote.

Iowa hand-counted their paper ballots on live television. With all caucusgoers counted, Donald Trump earned 51 percent of the vote and 16 delegates. Florida's Absentee Governor, Ron DeSantis (R-FL), came in a distant second place with 21.2 percent, 29.8 points behind Trump. Former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) came in third with 19.1 percent. Trump's massive landslide victory even resulted in Trump winning 98 of the 99 counties, only losing Johnson County, where many Democrats joined Republicans to caucus, by a single vote. Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the race following his fourth-place finish and endorsed President Trump after only securing 7.7 percent of the vote.

There have been two cases where a candidate has gotten over 50 percent, but neither case involved a true primary race the likes of which President Trump is up against. "Tom Harkin won 76 percent in the 1992 caucuses, but only because the other Democratic candidates had ceded Iowa to him because he was a popular senator from the state. In 2000, Al Gore won 63 percent, but that was a two-person race, against Bill Bradley," The Washington Post reports.

"We're gonna straighten out our elections. We're gonna do a lot of great things. We're gonna try and go to paper ballots as soon as possible. Voter ID. One-day elections. You know, we have these elections that last for 62 days, and if you need some more time, take as much time as you want, and so many bad things happen. We have to get rid of mail-in ballots because once you have mail-in ballots, you have crooked elections. Actually, Jimmy Carter's commission said that a long time ago," Trump said during his victory speech.

Ramaswamy's exit from the race and endorsement of Trump comes after the leading Republican candidate took aim at him for posting a photo of himself with six supporters wearing his new campaign shirt, suggesting you can only "Save Trump" if you vote for Vivek.

In a post from his top-rated social media platform, Truth Social, Trump wrote, "Vivek started his campaign as a great supporter, 'the best President in generations,' etc. Unfortunately, now all he does is disguise his support in the form of deceitful campaign tricks. Very sly, but a vote for Vivek is a vote for the 'other side' — don't get duped by this. Vote for 'TRUMP,' don't waste your vote! Vivek is not MAGA. The Biden Indictments against his Political Opponent will never be allowed in this Country, they are already beginning to fall! MAGA!!!"

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