Opinion: Iowa Republicans believe Trump can't lose

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : The "next leader of the free world" must be Trump.
65% : Trump cares only about himself and admires dictators who he believes are strong and powerful.
64% : Trump can appeal.
61% : Instead, they picked political ambition and power over the good of the country.
57% : "But we know the only way the "will of the American people" will count is if Trump wins.
53% : When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, he liked saying America would win so much under his leadership we'd "get bored with winning."
53% : Trump can't lose.
52% : Trump can't lose, at least in the eyes of his loyal supporters, which includes the top Republican politicians in Iowa.
46% : Democracy be damned, Trump is undefeated.
41% : Because Trump can't lose.
41% : Because Trump can't lose.
35% : Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's blueprint for the Trump presidency, will remove tens of thousands of civil service employees and replace them with Trump loyalists.
34% : Trump and his acolytes refuse to say they'll accept a free and fair outcome this fall.
34% : The American court system is worthless and crooked because a jury had the audacity to hold Trump accountable.
32% : Christian nationalists see in Trump the opening they've been waiting for to trash our secular, pluralistic democracy.
30% : If that's not the verdict at the ballot box, Trump won't accept it.
30% : Trump doesn't lose, and if he does, surely the election is illegitimate.
27% : We know this from 2020, when Trump lost the presidency but perpetrated the big lie about a stolen election that was not stolen.
26% : The playbook is basically an authoritarian vision of how Trump can rule the country with an iron fist.
24% : His vice president refused to stop the certification, and Trump threw him to the wolves.
23% : Because there can be no free and fair election if Trump loses.
22% : The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be dismantled, and Trump could end public radio stations' status as "non-commercial education stations."
13% : But why let the process play out when you know Trump can't lose?"America saw this trial for what it was, a sham," Gov. Kim Reynolds said in a statement soon after the verdicts were handed down.

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