{"id":46520,"date":"2024-01-16T16:54:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T06:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=46520"},"modified":"2024-01-16T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T06:54:23","slug":"big-win-in-iowa-moves-trump-closer-to-biden-re-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=46520","title":{"rendered":"Big win in Iowa moves Trump closer to Biden re-match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donald Trump romped to a landslide victory Monday in Iowa&#8217;s caucuses &#8212; the first vote in the US presidential race &#8212; cementing his status as the presumptive Republican standard-bearer to challenge President Joe Biden in November&#8217;s election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former president has led polling for more than a year, but the contest offered the clearest insight yet into his ability to convert that advantage into a stunning White House return.<\/p>\n<p>Major US networks took just half an hour to call the race, with Trump taking 51 percent of the vote and opening an unprecedented 30-point gap over Ron DeSantis &#8212; the biggest victory for an Iowa challenger in modern history.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida governor and Trump&#8217;s other main rival &#8212; former UN ambassador Nikki Haley &#8212; were locked at 21 and 19 percent respectively, with DeSantis projected to take the runner-up spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump is the dominant candidate (in the Republican Party) and &#8216;contest one&#8217; confirms the reality,&#8221; Julian E. Zelizer, professor of Public Affairs at Princeton University, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>There had been questions whether Trump would be hamstrung by his legal problems, as he faces multiple civil and criminal trials this year.<\/p>\n<p>But the extent of his victory demonstrated the 77-year-old&#8217;s success in turning his prosecutions into a rallying cry that has galvanized his followers as he takes his momentum into New Hampshire, the next state to nominate, next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>BSS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump romped to a landslide victory Monday in Iowa&#8217;s caucuses &#8212; the first vote in the US presidential race &#8212; cementing his status as the presumptive Republican standard-bearer to challenge President Joe Biden in November&#8217;s election. The former president has led polling for more than a year, but the contest offered the clearest insight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-46520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-big-win-in-iowa-moves-trump-closer-to-biden-re-match"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}