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Former President Donald Trump’s commanding victory in the Iowa Republican caucuses confirmed the writing on the wall - a committed core of the party will follow him into the freezing cold or anywhere else.

Donald Trump swept the Iowa caucuses, the first Republican primary of the 2024 election. He got 51 percent of the vote — a clear sign of his enduring command of the Republican Party. Here are takeaways.

Joe Scarborough on Tuesday said Donald Trump ’s victory in the Iowa caucuses was actually “bad news” for the GOP front-runner ― and the MSNBC host used former President Barack Obama to make his point. (Watch the video below.)

He’s both the chooser and the chosen one. Much has changed since Trump lost to Cruz eight years ago. In 2016, 64% of Iowa Republican caucusgoers were evangelicals, and Cruz eked out his victory after endorsements from Christian right power brokers and anti-abortion-rights leaders’ desperate plea to reject Trump.

Donald Trump won the Iowa Republican caucuses on Monday night in a rout, winning the first nominating contest for a second— not third! —time. His vote share, at 51 percent, and margin of victory, around 30 percentage points, both broke records for competitive Iowa Republican contests.

After Monday night’s votes came in, it was inarguable that Iowa Republicans love Trump — roughly half identified themselves as part of the MAGA movement, and about two-thirds said they do not believe that President Joe Biden’s win over Trump in 2020 was legitimate, according to initial results of CNN’s entrance poll for the caucuses.

"On what everyone knew was supposed to be a day of victory for Donald in Iowa, this loss will still be burning in his mind," the writer said in her newsletter.

A third-place finish didn’t deliver the boost Nikki Haley wanted as she tries to turn the race into a one-on-one with Donald Trump.

Part of what makes Iowa significant isn’t the caucuses’ role in elevating those who win, rather it’s the caucuses’ role in dispatching those who lose.

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The table below compares how much candidates over- or underperformed their polls in Iowa with how much they gained or lost in national polls over the subsequent month, based on retroactively calculated 538 polling averages from 1980 through 2020. The table includes only candidates who finished first or second in Iowa.

But just over 110,000 voters participated in the 2024 caucuses, falling well below the high expectations for turnout in 2024. Former President Donald Trump handily won the contest, trailed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ team had knocked on 947,000 doors across Iowa while the candidate had visited all 99 counties

Ron DeSantis finished second but has a tough outlook. And Nikki Haley finished a close third but might not be building a coalition that can compete in a GOP primary.

Trump, on the eve of the caucus, also officially secured a majority of GOP congressional support, now boasting 135 endorsements from Republicans in the House and Senate — far beyond DeSantis’ five House endorsers and Haley’s single congressional endorsement.

Former President Donald Trump has won the Iowa Republican caucuses, according to a race call by The Associated Press. "This has been an incredible experience," Trump said late Monday night.

Former President Donald Trump scored the first victory of the 2024 presidential primary season Monday with a sweeping and broad-based win in the Iowa Republican caucuses.

Fresh off his decisive win in the Iowa caucuses, former President Trump arrived Tuesday at a Manhattan courtroom for the start of a civil trial over a defamation lawsuit filed by author E. Jean Carroll.

Ron DeSantis did just enough in the Iowa caucuses to keep alive his argument that he’s the most formidable Republican challenger to Donald Trump for the party’s nomination.

ABC News' team of embed reporters share their experiences covering Iowa during the 2024 presidential campaign.

Donald Trump has been projected as the winner of the Iowa caucuses. The outcome is hardly a surprise, given the former president has held a comfortable lead in the state's opinion polls for months.

Viewership was down during Monday night’s Iowa caucuses compared to previous cycles, but Fox News won the top spot among cable news outlets for the night. Fox averaged 2.5 million viewers

The former president secured a convincing victory in Iowa and won the majority of college-educated voters, according to exit polls.

Former biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy ended his long-shot presidential bid Monday after a fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, urging his supporters to instead support former President Donald Trump, whose record-breaking win in Iowa appeared to solidify his path to the GOP nomination.

Donald Trump has scored a record-setting win in the Iowa caucuses. Mr. Trump’s victory sends a resounding message that the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination is his to lose. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis finished second over former U.

Former President Donald Trump trounced his Republican rivals on Monday in the first nominating contest of the 2024 election, leaving his top rivals with more questions than answers about the path forward for their candidacies.

Nikki Haley finished third at the Iowa caucuses, but tells supporters she’s positioned to make a big move in New Hampshire.

Donald Trump won the first contest of the 2024 US presidential election in a landslide, beating his Republican rivals in Iowa. He is the frontrunner to be the party's presidential pick in November's election. More than 20 people were injured in downtown Fort Worth after an apparent gas explosion.

DeSantis supporters grew frustrated with Fox News after it projected Trump as the winner in Iowa only 33 minutes into the caucus.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said Monday he believes former President Trump’s roaring victory in the Iowa caucus could actually be a bad sign for his campaign. Media outlets called the race for

Iowa Republicans took a victory lap after avoiding a repeat of Democrats’ ill-fated 2020 caucus performance in which technical problems delayed the reporting of a winner.

Republicans like to say every state is now a border state and that sentiment shined through in former President Donald Trump’s commanding victory in the Iowa GOP caucuses.

Shares of the blank-check company that's trying to take Donald Trump's social-media platform Truth Social public are surging after his win in the Iowa caucuses Monday. Digital World Acquisition is up 12%,

Former President Donald Trump took his first official step toward winning a third consecutive Republican presidential nomination on Monday.

Gingrich's statement comes after the former president bested his opponents in the Republican primary in the Iowa caucuses.

Former President Donald Trump scored the first victory of the 2024 presidential primary season Monday with a sweeping and broad-based win in the Iowa Republican caucuses. The Associated Press declared the former president the winner based on an analysis of initial returns as well as results of AP VoteCast,

The former president won Republicans of all stripes, including suburban voters whom Nikki Haley had courted heavily.

Donald Trump won all but one of Iowa's 99 counties during Monday night's caucuses, with a single vote in Johnson County blocking Trump from a clean sweep of the Hawkeye State.

The Iowa Caucus kicks off the 2024 presidential election season with Republican voters deciding which candidate will represent the party in the general election — former President Donald Trump, Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis.

Former President Donald Trump had little time to celebrate his Iowa victory before he faces another civil trial, this time a second round in New York against advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.

President Biden acknowledged former President Trump as the "clear front runner" the the GOP's primary on Monday.

David Axelrod suggested that Biden’s team should be “happy” about Trump’s blowout victory in Iowa Monday evening because it makes it obvious whom Biden will face in the

The American Conservative spoke to sources currently on the ground in Iowa about what to expect from tonight’s results.

Trump, celebrating his landslide victory over DeSantis and Haley in Iowa's Republican presidential caucus, quickly set his sights on New Hampshire, which votes next in the GOP calendar.

Arctic conditions led to the lowest turnout in decades for an Iowa Republican caucus Monday night, with a little more than 110,000 voters casting ballots for their chosen candidate, according to

Not much can be said about Iowa that my colleagues here have not already said: This is not your father’s conservative movement, but your great-grandfather’s. Trump is going to be the nominee and, barring extralegal methods and lawfare forcing him to suspend his campaign,

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis finished in second place in Iowa on Monday night solidifying his position as the top challenger to former President Donald Trump.

The first contest was no contest. Former President Donald Trump was projected to win the Iowa caucus in a blowout Monday night — confirming his standing as the clear front-runner.

Former President Donald Trump was feeling the kumbaya in the air on Monday night at his presidential campaign headquarters in Iowa.

Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy ended his presidential bid following disappointing results from Monday's Iowa Caucuses, throwing his support behind former President Trump.