Trump returns to Iowa 10 days before the caucuses with a commanding lead over the Republican field - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : While Trump last visited Iowa before Christmas, his allies have been fanning out across the state, holding their own events on his behalf.
45% : Trump held a pair of commit-to-caucus events, one in the far northwest corner of the state on the border with South Dakota and one in north-central Mason City.
39% : It even sets the tone, frankly, for November," Trump said in Mason City.
37% : While he remains far ahead in Iowa and other early state and national polls, Trump also continued to lash out at his top Republican rivals, unleashing some of his most pointed attacks to date against former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who has seen growing support in recent months following a series of well-reviewed debate performances.
36% : DeSantis, who has staked his campaign on Iowa, entered the race with sky-high expectations but has struggled to gain traction against Trump.
35% : "Sadly, the establishment losers and sellouts lagging far behind us in the Republican primary cannot be trusted on taxes, on trade, or anything else," Trump charged.
29% : Trump did not acknowledge the date Friday, but railed against the treatment of those who have been jailed for participating in the riot, labeling them "hostages" and saying it will "go down as one of the saddest things in the history of our country.
25% : Trump also asked at one point in Sioux Center whether there was anyone in the friendly room who wasn't planning to vote for him, but then quickly warned them not to raise their hands.
24% : DeSantis, campaigning across central and northeastern parts of the state, also repeatedly told his crowds of about 100 people that Trump failed to follow through with his previous campaign promises and accused the former president of running a campaign all about himself.
23% : "He is a danger to democracy," Trump charged in Mason City.
23% : Michael Grevengoed, 34, from Doon, Iowa, is planning to caucus for Trump on Jan. 15 and said he isn't concerned about Trump's legal woes.
21% : Trump lost the state in 2016 to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz but ultimately won the nomination and the presidency.
21% : This time, Trump is facing criminal charges across four separate jurisdictions.
21% : In addition to his criminal charges, Trump is also facing efforts to remove him from the ballot over his attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
17% : "Joe Biden's record is an unbroken streak of weakness, incompetence, corruption, and failure," Trump told the crowd in Sioux Center.
9% : Trump also spent much of the night lashing out at President Joe Biden, who earlier Friday delivered a speech warning that Trump's efforts to retake the White House pose a grave threat to the country and democracy.
8% : Trump tried to cast both her and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who was once the only rival he criticized, as "establishment pawns," alleging they would "sell" voters "out."
7% : "We all know who Donald Trump is," Biden said near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where George Washington and the Continental Army spent a bleak winter nearly 250 years ago.
5% : "Trump, who faces 91 criminal charges stemming from his efforts to overturn his loss to Biden and other state and federal cases, continued to argue that it is, instead, Biden who poses the threat.

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