Trump's Iowa landslide sees him win by record 30-point margin

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87% : that's an amazing job,' Trump said.
65% : After visiting the court, Trump will fly to New Hampshire to hold a rally Tuesday evening.
62% : In a preview of a remarkable balancing act Trump may have to manage in the months ahead, he was expected to be in court in New York on Tuesday.
62% : Trump quickly looked forward and said the 'big night is going to be in November when we take back our country' in the general election.
62% : Trump's remarks came in a victory speech where he paid tribute to his late mother-in-law Amalija Knavs and thanked 'my incredible wife' former first lady Melania Trump.
60% : Trump won 98 out of 99 counties in a drubbing that leaves his rivals Ron DeSantis, who came second with 23% of votes, and Nikki Haley , who finished third with 21% of votes, trailing behindFor Haley, who finished third on 21 per cent, she will look for a strong performance in New Hampshire where she has polled as high as 45 per cent in recent weeksAnd coming more than 30 points behind Trump in the Iowa caucus will be a huge blow for DeSantis - especially since previous Iowa delegates have backed conservative and religious candidates like himAs of 2am, Trump had more than 56 percent of the votes with Haley and DeSantis scrapping in second placeFor Haley, who finished third on 21 per cent, she will look for a strong performance in New Hampshire where she has polled as high as 45 per cent in recent weeks.
60% : I think they both actually did very well,' Trump told a crowd of a few hundred supporters just hours after networks called the state for him.
56% : He also had kind words for Vivek Ramaswamy, after blasting him in the final days before the caucus - speaking shortly before Ramaswamy dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump.
55% : 'God called us to do that to support Trump,' said 64-year-old David Lage, donning a captain's hat at Trump's victory party.
52% : But last night's record victory for Trump leaves him with a tighter grip on the GOP nomination - though it could take several more months for anyone to formally become the party's standard bearer.
52% : 'That's how he got so tall.'Trump was joined onstage at his victory party by sons Eric and Don Jr., but there was no sign of daughter Ivanka.
51% : 'When you look at how well we're doing in New Hampshire and in South Carolina and beyond, I can safely say tonight Iowa made this Republican primary a two-person race,' she said.READ MORE: Trump says 'it's time for our country to come together' after Iowa LANDSLIDE:
51% : He called to 'come together and straighten out the world and straighten out the problems.'Trump sought to seize the momentum from his convincing win, even as the race for the GOP presidential nomination shifts immediately to New Hampshire, where Haley has been rising in the polls.
48% : But now Trump and his rivals will turn their attention to next week's New Hampshire primary on January 23 where they will compete for more key votes with more to play for after conservative entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the race.
48% : Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said the competition is all but over for the other candidates, declaring that Trump will be the Republican's presidential candidate despite this being the first vote.
47% : The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether states have the ability to block Trump from the ballot for his role in sparking the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol.
45% : Haley did beat Trump in one county - Johnson - but only by one point.
45% : Haley did beat Trump in one county - Johnson - but only by one point.
45% : Haley said the results make it a 'two-person race' between her and Trump.
44% : But it hasn't always been the best at predicting who will go on to win the presidency, as was the case in 2020 when Trump won all 99 counties in Iowa only to lose the election to President Joe Biden.
44% : DeSantis plans to hold events in South Carolina, which holds its primary February 24, and New Hampshire on Tuesday, after failing to use his turnout organization to pull closer to Trump.
42% : Trump has increasingly echoed authoritarian leaders and framed his campaign as one of retribution.
40% : Trump, who holds a lopsided lead in national polls, included calls for unity in his speech, even though Iowa represents just 1.6 per cent of the total delegates at stake in the fight for the nomination.
39% : Former President Donald Trump raises his fist in the air after he won the Iowa Caucus on January 15Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Iowa Events Center after winning the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus in Des Moines, Iowa, on MondayFormer President Donald Trump raises his fist in the air after he won the Iowa Caucus on January 15Indeed, in 2016, Trump lost in Iowa to Ted Cruz with only 37 counties voting for him but he went on to win the presidency.
33% : About three-quarters of Iowans responding to AP VoteCast said the charges against Trump are political attempts to undermine him, rather than legitimate attempts to investigate important issues.
31% : Get over it.'Trump won 98 out of 99 counties in a drubbing that leaves his rivals Ron DeSantis, who came second with 23% of votes, and Nikki Haley , who finished third with 21% of votes, trailing behind.
31% : 'Despite every lawsuit, despite every effort to destroy Trump, the people of Iowa have stood up and said "No, he's our candidate".
30% : But his spokesperson has previously said his campaign will not be derailed if he lost to Trump in Iowa.
26% : And for some candidates who were defeated in Iowa - such as Ronald Reagan in 1980, George Bush in 1988 and Trump in 2016 - they all went on to win the election.
25% : Trump won 98 out of 99 counties in a drubbing that leaves his rivals Ron DeSantis, who came second with 23% of votes, and Nikki Haley, who finished third with 21% of votes, trailing behind.
24% : Trump has made courtroom visits a part of his campaign - heading to court voluntarily twice last week while his opponents campaigned in Iowa - in a strategy designed to portray him as a victim of a politicized legal system.
21% : Some will now question that if DeSantis can't beat Trump in conservative Iowa, where could he?
21% : A jury is poised to consider whether he should pay additional damages to a columnist who last year won a $5 million jury award against Trump for sex abuse and defamation.
10% : DeSantis and Haley will now look to turn their loss in Iowa into a win in the upcoming primaries, but conservative commentators such as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich have already declared: 'Trump is the nominee.
6% : Gingrich said the other candidates are now 'irrelevant', adding: 'Nobody is going to be number two because Trump is going to dominate totally if you look at the country at-large.'Trump's landslide victory does now mean that the not-Trump vote remains divided with no clear challenger emerging between DeSantis and Haley.
5% : And coming more than 30 points behind Trump in the Iowa caucus will be a huge blow for DeSantis - especially since previous Iowa delegates have backed conservative and religious candidates like him.

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