Headline Roundup • January 9th, 2024
Who Will Triumph in the Iowa Caucuses?
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The 2024 Iowa presidential caucuses will be held on Monday, Jan. 15, and 40 delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention will be allocated. Who will come out on top?
Key Details: The latest polls in the first-in-the-nation Republican presidential primary caucus show former President Donald Trump leading with 51.3% of the vote. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is second with 17.2%, and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is third with 15.8%. Some pundits, however, see the race as closer with possible ground surges for both DeSantis and Haley.
Key Quotes: "There's a massive surge going on for Governor DeSantis," said Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX). "It really is interesting, and people are engaging in and focusing, not just listening to the noise and not just listening to the polls." Nikki Haley told supporters, “All the fellas are giving me so much attention,” referring to attacks from Trump and DeSantis.
For Context: From 1976 to 2016, only three of the eight winners of the Republican Iowa caucuses went on to win their party's nomination for president.
How the Media Covered It: Fox News (Right bias) noted reports of a ground surge for DeSantis. The Hill (Center bias) and The New Yorker (Left bias) reported on Haley's seeking a surge.
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GOP Congressman Chip Roy, a surrogate for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on the 2024 presidential campaign trail, spoke to Fox News Digital about a week out from the Iowa caucus and said DeSantis is surging at the right time and is on track to outperform expectations next week.
"There's a massive surge going on for governor DeSantis," Roy explained. "It really is interesting and people are engaging in and focusing, not just listening to the noise and not just listening to the polls."
Former President Trump holds a roughly 30-point lead on...
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“All the fellas are giving me so much attention,” Nikki Haley told supporters over the weekend in Iowa, on her second-to-last campaign swing before the caucus. Haley was referring to former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, both of whom were devoting more and more time to attacks against her. “She likes the globe,” Trump said of Haley. “I like America first.” Late last week, I came to Iowa to see whether Haley could gain enough momentum to make Trump feel threatened, or at least knock DeSantis aside. “If they’re lying, they’re losing,”...
Jimmy Carter finished second to “uncommitted” in 1976. An incumbent vice president was a distant third in 1988. And the current president finished behind three other candidates in 2020.
Iowa, the state that traditionally kicks off the presidential nominating process, has a mixed record when it comes to choosing the eventual nominee of each party. For Democrats in recent years, it has been more predictive: Four of the past five Democratic nominees won Iowa. In contrast, the last three Republican nominees failed to win the state. Instead, New Hampshire has more...
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