ABOVE: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a caucus night party in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Former President Donald Trump dominated the Iowa caucus on Monday night in the first election contest of 2024, confirming his role as the frontrunner in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination.
“I really think this is time now for everybody, our country, we want to come together. Whether it’s Republican or Democrat, or Liberal or Conservative, it would be so nice if we could come together,” Trump told his supporters in his victory speech.
Trump cruised to victory and took more than 50% of the vote. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley were neck and neck but finished a distant second and third.
Trump was lifted up by white evangelicals, with one CNN entrance poll showing 53% of the voting bloc backing the former president.
CBN’s Chief Political Analyst David Brody reports, “A TRUMP TKO in Iowa: he improved his performance among evangelicals by +32 from 2016. He doubled his results among females from 2016 (24% to 48%). He’s stronger now than he’s ever been. The numbers out of Iowa across the
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