Hints and tips:
...Trump won 98 out of Iowa’s 99 counties — including 61 that he failed to carry in 2016....
...If Trump wins Iowa (and I’m betting he will), it won’t be because he tried....
...DeSantis has staked his White House bid on Iowa, touring each of the state’s 99 counties and earning the endorsement of governor Kim Reynolds....
...There are two ways to interpret Donald Trump’s cruise to victory in Iowa....
...DeSantis, who touts that he has visited all 99 of Iowa’s counties since launching his campaign earlier this year, had a similarly gruelling six-day schedule....
...However, Donald Trump has won Johnson County, where the University of Iowa is located, with Haley trailing by fewer than 3 points....
...Ramaswamy has visited all 99 of Iowa’s counties at least twice. “I think the polls are drastically off,” Ramaswamy told CBS News on Friday. “I think we have a good shot of winning the Iowa caucus.”...
...Trump was declared the winner of the Iowa caucuses as Haley’s event was beginning....
...The article was updated to reflect that Nikki Haley is ahead in one of Iowa’s 99 counties....
...Haley is leading in Story County, just north of Des Moines and home to Iowa State University....
...The pivot to attack Trump comes after he dominated the Iowa caucuses, winning more than 50 per cent of the vote and all but one of the state’s 99 counties....
...For example, he was more heavily supported in counties with more white evangelical Protestants — who are clearly in thrall to the former president — and far less supported in counties with more unaffiliated...
...The former president won nearly every county in Iowa; he leads nationally, and in key states, by double digits; and, increasingly, his competitors recognised this and dropped out of the race....
...Vivek Ramaswamy urged Iowa voters not to fall for what he described as a plan by Republican mega donors to replace Donald Trump with a “puppet who they can control”....
...’s county....
...[because] they’re going to take him out before that,” says Chris Vitale, another autoworker from the electoral bellwether Michigan county of Macomb....
...So again, just to rewind slightly, Iowa just over a week ago, Ron DeSantis bit it all in Iowa. I mean, went to every county, 99 counties, spent a huge amount of money there and barely finished second....
...Speaking to the FT in Waterloo on Tuesday, Bobby Kaufmann, an Iowa state legislator who has endorsed Trump, said the indictments he was facing from New York to Fulton County, Georgia, were a “joke”....
...Indeed, he promised to visit all 99 of Iowa’s counties in the months ahead. For DeSantis, it is Iowa or bust....
...She finished third in Iowa last week, underperforming polls, and is facing pressure from her backers to put in a strong showing in New Hampshire or forfeit campaign funding....
...In a settlement announced on Wednesday, the banks will pay $499mn to a class of investors led by several US pension funds from Iowa, Los Angeles, Orange County and Sonoma County....
...in Iowa....
...A hotly anticipated Iowa poll on Monday showed Trump had a more than 20-point lead in the critical early voting state over his next closest rival, DeSantis....
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