After conversion, 95%. votes, Trump is clearly ahead of his competitors. The former president can count on 51%. support, which is about the same as shown by recent polls.
Ron DeSantis is in second place with 21.3%. His campaign has struggled in recent weeks, but he still managed to beat former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, who got 19.1 percent. votes.
Fourth place went to entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. He won about 7.7%. votes.
New Hampshire will vote next week. Polls show Trump has an advantage over his rivals there too, but not as big as in other states. The former president enjoys support above 43%, Haley can count on around 30%. votes.
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Unusual primary election in Iowa and extreme weather
The Republican primaries in Iowa look different than other states. These are not the classic elections in which the voter shows up at the electoral commission, takes the ballot, throws it in the ballot box and leaves.
Instead, you will have to show up at the polling station at a specific time, listen to the speeches of the representatives of each candidate and then cast your vote. For Democrats, this procedure is even more complicated and resembles a debating club rather than a simple act of voting.
This year, an additional obstacle for people wanting to vote was extreme weather conditions. In some parts of the state temperatures even dropped below -30 degrees Celsius, while in the capital Des Moines the temperature was -20 degrees Celsius at the time of the vote.
Barefoot JIM / PAP Snowstorm in Iowa
Due to weather conditions in the final days before the vote, both Trump, Haley and DeSantis canceled meetings with voters.
Republican Party primaries. Trump is clearly the favorite
The Iowa primaries are the first episode of voting in the individual states, which will last until the beginning of June. This is how the Republican Party will choose its presidential nominee to face President Biden in November.
There is a certain number of delegates up for grabs in each state. Whoever wins the election in a given state gets the votes of all state delegates (there are exceptions to this rule, sometimes – as in Iowa – there is a proportional system). Whoever obtains more than half of the delegates in all states wins the primaries and becomes the party’s candidate in the presidential elections.
National polls give Trump a clear lead over other Republicans. The former president can count on an average consensus of over 61%. Haley is second with 12%, DeSantis is third with 10.7%.
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