Former President Donald Trump proved the poll numbers he has been pulling in ever since announcing his candidacy for the 2024 presidential nomination were not a fluke or exaggerated by winning a huge victory in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, receiving a total of 51 percent of the vote, which amounted to 56,260 ballots, a report from the New York Times revealed. This means that Trump got more votes than both the second place finisher, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (23,240 votes) and the third place winner, Nikki Haley (21,085 votes).
In fact, Trump’s win was so big, it obliterated a caucus record for contested races, the Associated Press reported. The 30-point victory went way, way over the original record set by former GOP Sen. Bob Dole who had a 13-point win during the 1988 caucuses.
Trump, in an interview with Fox News, not long after his victory was declared, said, “I feel great. I am greatly honored by such an early call.”
“It really is an honor that, minutes after, they’ve announced I’ve won — against very credible competition — great competition, actually,” Trump commented.
“It is a tremendous thing and a tremendous feeling,” he added during the interview. “I feel really invigorated and strong for our country,” he stated. “We want to Make America Great Again — the greatest slogan ever — and the fact is, that’s what we did.”
He then went on to say, “We have to get our country back.”
“Our country has gone through so many bad things over the last three years and it is continuing to go through bad things,” the former commander-in-chief told Fox, pointing out the world has also been put through a lot, making a reference to the terrorist attack in Israel Oct. 7.
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Trump said that he successfully built the strength of the military, made the nation energy independent, and achieved “the best economy ever.”
“We’re going to quickly do it all again,” he said. “We are going to fix our border and we are going to do it and do it quickly.”
Trump also issued a call for unity.
“I really think this is time now for everybody, our country, to come together,” Trump told supporters after his win was announced, according to Fox News.
“We want to come together, whether it’s a Republican or a Democrat or liberal or conservative. It would be so nice if we could come together and straighten out the world and straighten out the problems and straighten out all of the death and destruction that we’re witnessing,” he remarked.
I think a lot of Americans would like to see this happen. The question is, are we too divided to be able to find common ground with each other? Obviously, we’re all human beings who have, at a very fundamental level, similar beliefs on the basics of American society. Unfortunately, we’ve taken secondary issues and made them dogma, thus alienating people on either side. I hope we can one day recognize that we actually do care about the same things and that what is different is our proposed solutions. We need each other. Both sides working together creates balance.
While Trump was hopeful for seeing Americans find their way back to being a truly united country, he didn’t have much good to say about President Joe Biden.
“I don’t want to be overly rough on the president, but I have to say that he is the worst president that we’ve had in the history of our country, is destroying our country,” Trump stated emphatically.
Given his awful poll numbers, it seems a whole lot of Americans agree with Trump.
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