Iowa 2024: And We're Off!
The 2024 Presidential election season officially kicked off on Monday night as Iowans braved sub-zero temperatures to cast their Caucus votes in a big way for former President Donald Trump. It was no surprise. Democrats and the mainstream media tried to convince us that Donald Trump is evil, he is Hitler, he will put people in camps, or if he doesn’t do that, he will be convicted of something. Despite that, Trump has had at least a 30-point lead over his opponents for months. Americans are not buying any of it and with their votes, allowed Donald Trump to give all the above, as well as never-Trumpers, the Deep State, and anyone else, a giant middle finger. The final tally, Trump with 51 percent, Ron DeSantis with 21.2 percent, and Nikki Haley with 19.1 percent.
In a sort of bittersweet, but predictable moment, Vivek Ramaswamy, who had been a long-shot candidate from the beginning of the race, suspended his campaign. In a moment of class, honor, and doing what is best for the country above his own self-interest, the kind of moment rarely seen in politics, Ramaswamy said he called Trump to congratulate him and gave him his full endorsement. Vivek Ramaswamy is young, he is smart, articulate, and eager. Donald Trump would be well served to ask for his service in a second Trump administration in any capacity. We have not seen the last of Vivek Ramaswamy.
Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley finishing second and third respectively was also not much of a surprise. The two have been vying for the number two spot for several weeks. DeSantis’ campaign has not taken off like many people thought it would, leaving some people to speculate as to whether he should have waited until 2028 to run when he most certainly would have had Trump-like free reign over the rest of any possible field. Nikki Haley has had some verbal missteps in the last few weeks. At a campaign stop in New Hampshire a few weeks ago, she told the crowd that, “We have an opportunity to get this right. And I know we’ll get it right, and I trust you. I trust every single one of you. You know how to do this. You know Iowa starts it. You know that you correct it.” Perhaps Iowans sent Haley a message about how they felt about being “corrected.” Then just recently, Haley dodged a question about whether men can become women saying, “We want to make sure people can live any way they want to live.” And even though she came in third, Nikki Haley proclaimed that Iowans had made the race “a 2-person race.” Is she forgetting about the guy that came in ahead of her? Donald Trump is currently polling at 52 percent to Haley’s 21.8 percent in her home state of South Carolina, a state she was the Chief Executive of. South Carolina may very well be the end of the road for Nikki Haley.
What happened in Iowa, was that the people spoke. The permanent inhabitants of the Swamp and the mainstream media do not want Donald Trump anywhere near Washington D.C., much less the Oval Office ever again. They think they can do whatever they want to try to keep him out, and so far, they have. But in Iowa, the people pushed back, and they won. All you had to do was turn on CNN or MSNBC on Monday night to see how incensed the Swamp creature media was. Joy Reid chalking up Trump’s win to Iowa being full of white Christians who are racists, Rachel Maddow pompously declaring that their “news organization” would not stoop so low as to broadcast Trump’s victory speech. Make no mistake about it, the Swamp and its propaganda arm, the media, were furious. It just tells them they must try harder.
It is just more of the same. From the moment Donald Trump came down the escalator in Trump Tower in 2015, the media and the Swamp have never bothered to find out why Trump has the bond he does with his supporters. It is much easier to call them a “cult” or “deplorables” and be done with it. What the Swamp fails time and again to understand, is that Trump may have started out as a candidate in 2016. But his “America First” policies have morphed into a movement. A movement of regular everyday Americans who don’t like what is happening to their country, and the actions of not just Democrats, but Republicans as well, have led them to believe that no one cares. They don’t just support Trump as a candidate, they support him as the head of a movement they believe in.
The primary process will play out, and Donald Trump will become the Republican nominee for President, and if poll numbers continue to go in the current direction they are going, he will be reelected President. While the Swamp does its best to work around the American people, the people will work around the Swamp. That will simply be because a majority of Americans want Trump to be reelected President. There will continue to be more panic from Democrats and the left. They have hung all their hopes on bogus flimsy indictments, but it will not work. But above all else, do not underestimate their ability to cheat.
The voters of Iowa were just the first group of Americans to stand up and say “enough.” There will be 49 more groups of Americans, who will remind the Swamp who’s in charge.