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...Ron DeSantis took the stage in West Des Moines on Monday night to claim second place in the Iowa caucuses and position himself as the sole alternative to Donald Trump....
...“All eyes are on Iowa. You have the opportunity to set the tone in this race,” Haley said....
...Donald Trump is expected to win the first ballot of the 2024 presidential race, as voters in Iowa gather on Monday night for caucuses that will set the pace for the Republican campaign for the White House...
...The former US ambassador to the UN said that her campaign was the “last best hope of stopping the Trump-Biden nightmare”....
...Donald Trump and his Republican rivals for president battled to lock up support from Iowa voters over the weekend, in a final burst of campaigning across the Midwestern state before the party’s caucuses...
...Trump was declared the winner of the Iowa caucuses as Haley’s event was beginning....
...Pritzker has emerged as a top surrogate for Biden’s 2024 campaign, and has travelled to Des Moines, Iowa’s capital, along with other Democratic politicians and fundraisers....
...As of this morning, the forecast high in Des Moines, the state’s capital and largest city, was -18C and the forecast low -26C....
...Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll....
...The poll, conducted for the Des Moines Register and NBC News by J Ann Selzer, is seen as the “gold standard” of opinion surveys in Iowa....
...Nikki Haley told Iowa’s Republican voters “we don’t need to have four more years of chaos” as she sought to drum up support ahead of the state’s caucuses....
...The gymnasium has started to fill with caucus goers and party officials at a school in Van Meter, in the suburbs of Iowa’s capital Des Moines....
...Meanwhile, in Ankeny, a Des Moines suburb, dozens of voters left a venue after waiting over an hour to hear Donald Trump Jr, the president’s oldest son, and his partner, Kimberly Guilfoyle....
...A closely watched Des Moines Register and NBC News poll released at the weekend showed Trump had the support of just under half of likely Iowa caucus goers, followed by his former UN ambassador, Nikki Haley...
...The much-watched Des Moines Register poll, released over the weekend, showed 49 per cent of Trump supporters were “extremely enthusiastic” about his candidacy — far higher than either Nikki Haley or Ron...
...At Eternity Church in Clive, a Des Moines suburb, caucus goers had barely began listening to speeches about the candidates when the AP and others made their projections....
...“I really think this is time now for everybody, our country, to come together,” Trump said in front of his supporters at a post-caucus party in downtown Des Moines....
...Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson made a surprise appearance at a caucus site outside of Des Moines minutes before the contest was called for Donald Trump....
...“Rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him, you know I’m right,” Haley said of Trump during a rally at a lodge on a small hill in Adel, west of Iowa’s capital Des Moines, on Sunday evening....
...The low temperature in Des Moines was minus 27C and almost 2 feet of snow had fallen on the city in the week before....
...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....
...“Do you want more of the same or do you want a new generation of conservatives?” Haley told her supporters at a hotel in West Des Moines, honing the message she will take to New Hampshire....
...DeSantis has 20 per cent of the vote, and Haley has 18.2 per cent. Haley is leading in Story County, just north of Des Moines and home to Iowa State University....
...DeSantis, the Florida governor, and Haley, the former US ambassador to the UN, will debate on CNN from Des Moines, the Iowa capital, on Wednesday evening....
...Trump’s victory has raised the stakes for Haley and DeSantis, write James Politi and Lauren Fedor in West Des Moines....
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