Trump secures record victory in first key contest of Republican nomination - Tortoise

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66% : FiveThirtyEight analysed polling data from every presidential primary since 1980 and found that Trump has more support at this point in the process than every candidate except for George H W Bush in 1992.
60% : Donald Trump was declared the winner of last night's Republican caucuses in Iowa about 30 minutes after they began.
55% : DeSantis did the Full Grassley; Trump attended fewer than 30 events.98 - counties Trump won in last night's caucus, with Trump and Haley tied for Johnson county.
43% : Vivek Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur, dropped out of the race after winning less than 8 per cent of the vote and quickly endorsed Trump.
37% : Trump secured 51 per cent of the vote, with Florida governor Ron DeSantis coming a distant second on 21 per cent and Nikki Haley on 19 per cent.
14% : In between celebrating in Iowa and heading to campaign rallies in New Hampshire, Trump is expected to appear in a New York courtroom for the start of a defamation damages trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of rape.Must read: Bret Stephens in the New York Times on the case for Donald Trump: "You can't defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable."

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