The machine is launched. According to American media projections, former American President Donald Trump won the Republican primary in Iowa on Monday January 15 evening, the first step on the road to the November presidential election.
According to CNN and CBS, he is ahead of Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis in the caucus of this Midwestern state, thus consolidating his status as a big favorite of the right for the presidential election.
At 7 p.m. local time Monday, Republican voters began gathering at Iowa schools, libraries and fire stations for campaign rallies. After a prayer and a recitation of the traditional pledge of allegiance to the American flag, representatives of the candidates gave a speech in favor of their favorite before participants wrote their choice on a piece of paper.
For the first time since leaving power, Donald Trump, four times criminally charged, faced the judgment of voters. The result confirms the trend given by the polls, according to which he has an unprecedented lead over his opponents with almost 50% of voting intentions.
“We will win hands down”
The bitter cold affecting Iowa has not affected the motivation of his supporters. The state was hit by a snowstorm and the thermometer was expected to be close to -30°C at the time of the vote, with icy roads.
“We will win hands down”, Donald Trump had predicted to his activists. The 77-year-old tycoon wants at all costs to knock out all competition within the Grand Old Party to ensure his victory before his trials begin, some of which put him at risk of prison.
Starting next week, the highly orchestrated ballet of the primaries will take the candidates to New Hampshire, before each of the fifty states votes in turn until June. In their sights, the national convention in July, which will officially nominate the Republican presidential candidate.
The other big issue in this crucial vote in Iowa is winning second place. For now, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are fighting it out, according to media projections. Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, the only woman in the race, has benefited from a recent rise in the polls. The fifty-year-old is the new darling of the right, very appreciated in particular by business circles.
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As for the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, a forty-year-old conservative with shocking positions on immigration or abortion, he has bet everything on Iowa, traveling in recent months to each of the 99 counties. “I’m asking you to come out, brave the cold and support me during the Iowa caucus”he told his supporters Monday morning.