Winners and losers of the Iowa caucuses

Voters had their say for the first time in the 2024 presidential campaign cycle Monday — and the result was an emphatic win in the GOP’s Iowa caucuses for former President Trump.

Trump stormed to victory by roughly 30 points.

Much of the tension in the run-up to the caucuses revolved around the fight for second place. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won the consolation prize, edging out former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.

The caucuses winnowed the field, as they often do, with businessman Vivek Ramaswamy suspending his campaign after a lowly fourth-place showing. Ramaswamy endorsed Trump, as expected.

The weather was a major factor in this year’s caucuses, as a polar vortex plunged Iowa temperatures well below zero. Monday appears to have been the coldest caucus day ever.

Somewhere around 112,000 Iowans caucused, well shy of the record of approximately 186,000 set in 2016.

Here are the winners and losers from Monday night.