Preliminary results showed at 5.45 that Trump has received 51 percent of the vote. By then, 95 percent of the votes had been counted. Donald Trump took the podium as early as 0500. – The time has come for our country to stand together, said Donald Trump at the start of his speech in Iowa. Donald Trump has not been formally declared the winner, as the votes are still being counted, but it is already clear that he will win the nominating process in Iowa. No other Republican candidate in history has won so clearly in Iowa. In 2000, George W. Bush received around 40 percent of the vote, Trump has received more than half. Trump also has more votes than numbers two and three combined, so there isn’t a clear alternative to him either. US President Joe Biden says that the Iowa victory makes Trump an obvious main opponent in the presidential election. The battle for second place Florida Governor Ron DeSantis secures second place with 21.3 percent. Barely more than former UN ambassador and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley. She looks ten to end up with 19 percent of the Republican voters in Iowa. There was never any doubt that Donald Trump would emerge victorious from the Iowa caucuses. The latest poll published by the Des Moines Register/NBC News over the weekend showed that Trump has the support of 48 percent of Republicans in Iowa. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley are both fighting to avoid a third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses. Photo: AP In the same poll, Nikki Haley passed DeSantis in Iowa for the first time with 20 percent support. So at the finish line, it is clear that DeSantis will get credit for being the only one of the three candidates to have visited all of the 99 voting precincts before the election. For him, a victory over Nikki Haley is decisive. It is win or lose in the race to become the Republican presidential candidate. The third Trump challenger, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, announced at 5.15 Norwegian time that he will leave the election campaign. According to the New York Times’ count, he is likely to get 8 percent of the vote. Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy have all spent enormous amounts of time and money campaigning in Iowa. Combined, all the candidates and their supporters have spent $105 million here in the past year alone, according to The Wall Street Journal. Short voting time The election was open between 0200 and 0400 on Tuesday night Norwegian time. Iowa is known for having motivated voters. During the nomination meetings, citizens usually flock to the 1,657 meeting places in church basements, gymnasiums and private homes. To participate in voting for the person you want as your Republican presidential candidate, you must show up physically. Only active military and Americans abroad can pre-vote. Tonight, the Trump cap won’t do. Voters in Iowa must brave the bitter cold to support their Republican presidential candidate. Photo: AFP Demanding for voters This time the weather gods may have played an absolutely decisive role. Over the weekend, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis had to cancel several election rallies. The extreme cold is ravaging the Midwest. It is about what could be the coldest conditions in modern times during a presidential election period, with blizzards and winds that in some places can bring temperatures down to 42 degrees Celsius. – I know it’s cold, but we need you out there. Let’s have a strong finish, Nikki Haley said in a campaign video. Nikki Haley encourages guests at Drake Diner, in Des Moines, Iowa to vote. Photo: AP DeSantis said Sunday that he puts his faith in his “highly motivated” supporters. – Bring your friends and family. It’s going to make a difference, he said. Donald Trump was even clearer. – You cannot stay at home. Even if you go out and vote and then you die, it’s worth it, Trump said to laughter from a crowd of about 600 people in Indianola on Sunday. Two of those who are sure to vote for Trump in Iowa are David Amdahl and Jil Amdahl. While her daughter Staci has moved to Norway and wants to be as far away as possible from Donald Trump: Staci Amdahl does not want to travel to the United States in 2024, because it was so exhausting in 2016, the year Trump became president. Earlier this evening, news’s USA team met in Decorah. A small town at the intersection of Iowa Highway 9 and US Route 52. In a church in the town, quite a few more people than expected turned up for the election meeting tonight. Outside there are posters with the names of the candidates in the snow. People rush in from their cars in the minus 22 degrees. – This is roughly the same number of people who came in 2016, says David Amdahl beaming with joy. He is wearing a white cap as it says. Trump Caucus Captain on. Now the 81-year-old is collecting more chairs so that as many of those present as possible can sit. He will hold an appeal on behalf of Trump tonight. In 2016, he was not as convinced, but now he is a Trump supporter at heart. – The four years with Trump in the White House are the best I have experienced, he says. David Amdahl points out that petrol prices were lower and both the economy and foreign policy were much better. People have filled all the chairs he has put out, and now they line the walls and even in the middle of the room. Everyone has registered at the door and been given a small white slip on which to write the name of the person they want to vote for. – Everyone must stand in the queue outside before 1900. Those who do not, will not be allowed to participate. These are the rules, explains Jill Amdahl. When the door is closed, Jill Amdahl opens the meeting and gives the floor to spokespersons for the various candidates. A man who has come all the way from Florida with your daughter is holding an appeal for Ron DeSantis. And David Amdal for Donald Trump. When the appeal is over, everyone passes their notes to the counting corps who collect them into baskets. Then they are counted At 1948, ten minutes after Trump has already been declared the winner in Iowa, Jill Amdahl can read out the result: Ron Desantis 29 Nikki Haley 38 Vivek Ramaswamy 10 Donald Trump 54. New election next week Now Trump is asking the party and its rivals to stand behind him, but next week the election will be completely different than in Iowa. New Hampshire, the next state to nominate, has more college graduates, fewer evangelical Christians and more moderate Republicans than Iowa. Nikki Haley is well in the polls there and could give Trump a fight. Interested in the world? Listen to news Foreign Affairs’ weekly podcast:
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