Donald Trump returns to Iowa with big lead in caucus polls

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.
48% : "Ten days from now, the people of this state are going to cast the most important vote of your entire lives," Trump told several hundred supporters gathered in Sioux Center.
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.
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.
17% : "Joe Biden's record is an unbroken streak of weakness, incompetence, corruption, and failure," Trump told the crowd in Sioux Center.
15% : "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.
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."

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