Trump Wins Iowa With 7.8% Of Registered GOP Iowans

Less than an hour after the Iowa Republican caucuses began, the Associated Press declared Donald Trump would be the winner. As some polls had predicted, Trump won by nearly 30 points with (at this writing) 56,260 votes. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came in a distant second with 23,420 votes, and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley right behind in third with 21,085 votes. Entrepreneur and political newbie Vivek Ramaswamy never got out of the single digits, garnering about 7 percent of the vote. He suspended his campaign last night and, of course, endorsed Trump.

It’s worth noting that, according to state voter rolls, there are 718,901 registered Republicans in Iowa. Only 110,298 showed up last night to caucus. So that means that 7.8 percent of registered Iowa Republicans bothered to vote for the Donald.  And THAT’s supposed to be a bellwether for the rest of the nation?

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