Trump wins Iowa caucuses, cementing frontrunner status in 2024 race

[Lacessit]

11 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

They don't usually have sitting presidents polling around 33%, either.  They're making a mistake not primarying him.

 

The Dems are leaving the party in droves, Blacks, Hispanics, and all the other Dems that see the contempt that the party elite have for the voters.

 

You have everybody's votes 10 months before it happens? Can I buy your crystal ball? I do have 2 baht to pay for it.

[retarius]

Great, great result....Vivek has dropped out of the race apparently. I have been worried about warmonger Haley in the event that Trump doesn't get through his legal quagmire, but she got beaten by De Santis, thank god. 

It's all over now bar the shouting, apart of course from some 11th hour scandal involving Trump and a minor. 

Bring him back, please God, save us from the evil Genocide Joe Biden.

[bbko]

6 hours ago, Emdog said:

I'm going to USA in a couple of months: anyone have suggestions as to where I might move all my money to that might weather the least damage if Trump becomes president.

I'm not yet eligible to start collecting MY social security, but as my friend was telling me, be careful with the GOP, they are already eyeing to cut social security, so I better consider collecting my money earlier than if the Dems are in power.

[nauseus]

4 hours ago, soalbundy said:

I'm quite surprised by the low IQ in Iowa.

 

Here we go.

[retarius]

9 minutes ago, placeholder said:

I quite agree that prominent Democrats should have run against Biden. Whether fairly or not, he is a weak candidate. As for those droves, what does it say about the strength of Republican candidates that they are either slightly ahead or slightly behind Biden in the polls posing matchups?

Biden is a very weak candidate, physically, mentally and morally. His VP pick needs to be very strong indeed if he is to carry the day, as a lot of voters question whether he can complete another term. If he sticks with the current VP and laughing hyena, Harris, he is doomed. 

[impulse]

12 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

That's an interesting claim. Do you have any data to back that up?

 

Gallup Poll:

 

https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/12/democrats-party-id-record-low-2024-poll/

 

A record low percentage of Americans identified as Democrats in 2023 ahead of a contentious presidential election year, according to a Friday poll.

Only 27% of Americans self-identify as Democrats, reaching the smallest figure for the party in Gallup’s recorded history, according to the survey. 

 

And from USA Today:

 

Biden now claims the support of just 63% of Black voters, a precipitous decline from the 87% he carried in 2020, according to the Roper Center. He trails among Hispanic voters by 5 percentage points, 39%-34%; in 2020 he had swamped Trump among that demographic group 2 to 1, 65%-32%.

 

And among voters under 35, a generation largely at odds with the GOP on issues such as abortion access and climate change, Trump now leads 37%-33%. Younger voters overwhelmingly backed Biden in 2020.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/01/01/biden-trump-poll-odds-black-hispanic-young-voters/72072111007/

[retarius]

1 hour ago, rudi49jr said:

Remember the seven deadly sins? I’m sure Trump is guilty of them all, repeatedly.

Pride: he constantly brags about his achievements and makes everything about himself

Greed: self explanatory

Wrath: can you think of someone more vengeful and thin-skinned than Trump?

Envy: again, self explanatory 

Lust: he cheated on all his wives, many, many times.

Gluttony: he’s kind of fat, to say the least. Claims he weighs 220, when we all know that’s a big fat lie.

Sloth: Trump spent 285 days playing golf during his presidency. That’s almost a whole year. 

But Trump's not a hypocrite. He tells it like he thinks it is or should be. Every other politician is like a modern day Pharisee. 

Take Bill Clinton, he shagged Monica and the country was supposed to be outraged apparently, not that it was anyway illegal. He never lost support however because he was never hypocritical, never on a soap box preaching how saintly he was, unlike George Bush before him, of GWB after him.

[NickyLouie]

Trump is the Hero USA Needs.

[thaibeachlovers]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Donald Trump earned the widely-expected victory over former UN envoy Nikki Haley and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis [Andrew Harnik/AP]

5 pages in 7 hours- way to go Big Guy!

 

[thaibeachlovers]

10 minutes ago, retarius said:

If he sticks with the current VP and laughing hyena, Harris, he is doomed. 

I like that description. Seems eminently suitable.

 

Have any of the GOP candidates been pointing out that the VP is likely to be president at some stage in the 4 year term, and that she completely failed on the southern border. If she can't sort that, how can she be expected to sort the world?

[xylophone]

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I guess that's supposed to remind us of Boris Yeltsin.

The guy is a clown.....and dumb with it.

[retarius]

Just now, thaibeachlovers said:

I like that description. Seems eminently suitable.

 

Have any of the GOP candidates been pointing out that the VP is likely to be president at some stage in the 4 year term, and that she completely failed on the southern border. If she can't sort that, how can she be expected to sort the world?

I do think if he picks her, it will get plenty of publicity.

[retarius]

1 hour ago, rudi49jr said:

America’s only hope to become a banana republic dictatotship?

It's already a banana republic under Biden. Trump is the only one that will MAGA.

[sirineou]

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-national-lead-grows-opinion-poll-republican-primary/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=263914723

Which is why I love to see tramp be the Republican nominee . 

[Danderman123]

13 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Gallup Poll:

 

https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/12/democrats-party-id-record-low-2024-poll/

 

A record low percentage of Americans identified as Democrats in 2023 ahead of a contentious presidential election year, according to a Friday poll.

Only 27% of Americans self-identify as Democrats, reaching the smallest figure for the party in Gallup’s recorded history, according to the survey. 

 

And from USA Today:

 

Biden now claims the support of just 63% of Black voters, a precipitous decline from the 87% he carried in 2020, according to the Roper Center. He trails among Hispanic voters by 5 percentage points, 39%-34%; in 2020 he had swamped Trump among that demographic group 2 to 1, 65%-32%.

 

And among voters under 35, a generation largely at odds with the GOP on issues such as abortion access and climate change, Trump now leads 37%-33%. Younger voters overwhelmingly backed Biden in 2020.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/01/01/biden-trump-poll-odds-black-hispanic-young-voters/72072111007/

So you are going with polls this early in the election?

[Danderman123]

1 minute ago, retarius said:

It's already a banana republic under Biden. Trump is the only one that will MAGA.

Explain why America is now a banana republic.

[Hanaguma]

52 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Political parties occupying the White House typically don't have presidential primaries.

 

Your knowledge of this subject seems limited.

Actually, they do. Especially when the incumbent is unpopular. Recent examples- 1992, 1980, 1976...

 

The big problem for the dems is that they have a DEI hire in the VP spot, so it is hard to replace Biden without giving Harris a shot at the nomination. 

[thaibeachlovers]

21 minutes ago, retarius said:

Great, great result....Vivek has dropped out of the race apparently. I have been worried about warmonger Haley in the event that Trump doesn't get through his legal quagmire, but she got beaten by De Santis, thank god. 

It's all over now bar the shouting, apart of course from some 11th hour scandal involving Trump and a minor. 

Bring him back, please God, save us from the evil Genocide Joe Biden.

Sooooooo, Haley got beaten ( X all the pundits forecasting her coming second ).

That's very good news. Hopefully she keeps losing.

 

[stoner]

3 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

So you are going with polls this early in the election?

 

the poster made a claim that people are leaving and changing their mind ? you asked for proof to back the claim up. the poster did.

 

now you are going on about time and election ? good deflection.

[thaibeachlovers]

6 minutes ago, retarius said:

I do think if he picks her, it will get plenty of publicity.

I didn't think of that. I'd prefer him to pick DeSantis, but I guess she ticks some of the boxes.

[Amethyst]

Vivek Ramaswamy dropping out of presidential race following Iowa caucuses

Ohio businessman Vivek Ramaswamy is suspending his presidential campaign, ending his bid for the Republican nomination after coming in fourth in the Iowa caucuses. 

 

"As of this moment, we are going to suspend this presidential campaign," Ramaswamy told his supporters and reporters. 

 

Ramaswamy said he's offered former President Donald Trump his full endorsement, and said he would appear with Trump on Tuesday. CBS News projects Trump will win the Iowa caucuses. 

 

The news follows a lackluster performance in the Iowa caucuses and a failure to maintain the short-lived momentum he had garnered in the summer after the second Republican debate.

 

(more)

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vivek-ramaswamy-drops-out-2024-presidential-race-iowa-caucuses/

 

[thaibeachlovers]

5 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Explain why America is now a banana republic.

You obviously haven't been paying attention. Too busy attacking me, I guess.

[johnnybangkok]

47 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

It really kills me to be the one to break this to you but [drumroll] - 51% is a majority. 

 

It would apppear that it is not I who has the problem with arithmetic. 

Voter turnout in Iowa this time around is estimated at 110,000. This is a VERY large drop from 2016 when it was 187,000. The weather certainly had something to do with it but not to the extent of being 40% down. So for those that held their nose and voted, half of them voted for Trump, that makes approx. 56,000. In 2016, Trump came second to Cruz with 24% of the vote - 24% of 187,000 is 45,000. 

 

In other words Trump only managed to convince another 11,000 people to vote for him in Iowa than did in 2016.

 

If 'Trump is so popular with Republican voters' as you previously stated, how come he can still only get 51% to vote for him and only increase his vote count by 20%? I would suggest that even in the GOP, Trump is not nearly as popular as you are trying to make out (obviously excluding all the MAGA brigade) and he will have to get an awful lot of them on-side come November (as well as the swing voters) if he is to carry the day. I predict that won't happen but not having a crystal ball like all of you Trump fans seem to have, I'll wait with patience to see what happens.  

[impulse]

3 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Actually, they do. Especially when the incumbent is unpopular. Recent examples- 1992, 1980, 1976...

 

The big problem for the dems is that they have a DEI hire in the VP spot, so it is hard to replace Biden without giving Harris a shot at the nomination. 

 

Their only real choice without setting off the DEI Gods is Michelle.

 

[thaibeachlovers]

1 minute ago, stats said:

The news follows a lackluster performance in the Iowa caucuses and a failure to maintain the short-lived momentum he had garnered in the summer after the second Republican debate.

Such a short lived momentum that I never heard of him till today.

 

Perhaps he might be hoping for VP if he's supporting Trump now.

[thaibeachlovers]

3 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Their only real choice without setting off the DEI Gods is Michelle.

 

I had to look up DEI, but if that is what we have sunk to, that we have to have that useless person in contention for POTUS because of some PC rubbish, we are already on the path to doom, IMO.

 

When did picking the best candidate cease to be an option?

[impulse]

2 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Such a short lived momentum that I never heard of him till today.

 

Perhaps he might be hoping for VP if he's supporting Trump now.

 

That's why what he did was actually pretty amazing.  Came from nowhere.  No name recognition.  No history.  And yet, scored a respectable number.  Not competitive, but respectable.

 

[ujayujay]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Donald Trump earned the widely-expected victory over former UN envoy Nikki Haley and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis [Andrew Harnik/AP]

 

Former United States President Donald Trump has won the Iowa caucuses, cementing his Republican frontrunner status as he bids to retake the White House in 2024.

 

Trump earned the widely-expected victory over former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, taking him a step closer to securing a third consecutive nomination for the Republican Party, projections by multiple US media outlets showed on Monday.

 

Full story: AL JAZEERA 2024-01-16

Wow!! Iowa

[thaibeachlovers]

I was just thinking that it has to be beyond ironic that we even have Trump standing as a candidate, let alone doing well. IMO it's all down to the Dems trying to get rid of him with 90 odd court cases that only served to make him popular again. Talk about shooting oneself in the foot!

[Screaming]

It looks like Trump is the man. MAGA 2024