Trump’s Landslide Victory in Iowa
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Donald J. Trump at a caucus site in Clive, Iowa, on Monday evening. His victory was called by The Associated Press only 31 minutes after the caucuses had begun.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times
To the Editor:
Re “Trump Wins Iowa in Key First Step Toward Rematch” (front page, Jan. 16):
If you weren’t scared before Monday night’s Iowa caucuses, you should be terrified now. The disgraced, twice-impeached, quadruple-indicted former president came within one vote of winning all 99 of Iowa’s counties, and received 51 percent of the vote.
Ron DeSantis came in a distant second with 21 percent of the vote, and Nikki Haley was a distant third with just 19 percent of the vote.
The bid for the Republican nomination for president is all but over, leaving America with a terrible choice between the autocratic and awful former president, and the obviously too old and frail current president.
Unless Ms. Haley can win convincingly in New Hampshire, and match Donald Trump in South Carolina, the former president will be the nominee.
Mr. Trump’s popularity seems to rise in direct proportion to his ever-growing legal woes. He uses each court case to raise more money and further enrage his core supporters.
This was a really bad night for all Americans, Democrats and Republicans alike. It is hard to believe, but believe we must, that the threat of another Trump presidency is perilously real.
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