Trump remains a powerful force in the Republican party despite losing the 2020 election. His supporters hold influence at every level of the party and have passed laws making it harder to vote. While out of office, Trump is able to position himself as an outsider and agent of change. His disruptive behavior and politically incorrect rhetoric energize his base of supporters who dislike the political establishment. Even when president, Trump portrayed himself as opposing the establishment. A victory in Iowa's Republican primary validates Trump's campaign operation and makes him the clear frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination. However, his 2020 loss came from weak support among moderate voters in suburban areas, which may not carry over to other states.
Trump remains a powerful force in the Republican party despite losing the 2020 election. His supporters hold influence at every level of the party and have passed laws making it harder to vote. While out of office, Trump is able to position himself as an outsider and agent of change. His disruptive behavior and politically incorrect rhetoric energize his base of supporters who dislike the political establishment. Even when president, Trump portrayed himself as opposing the establishment. A victory in Iowa's Republican primary validates Trump's campaign operation and makes him the clear frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination. However, his 2020 loss came from weak support among moderate voters in suburban areas, which may not carry over to other states.
Trump remains a powerful force in the Republican party despite losing the 2020 election. His supporters hold influence at every level of the party and have passed laws making it harder to vote. While out of office, Trump is able to position himself as an outsider and agent of change. His disruptive behavior and politically incorrect rhetoric energize his base of supporters who dislike the political establishment. Even when president, Trump portrayed himself as opposing the establishment. A victory in Iowa's Republican primary validates Trump's campaign operation and makes him the clear frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination. However, his 2020 loss came from weak support among moderate voters in suburban areas, which may not carry over to other states.
Trump remains a powerful force in the Republican party despite losing the 2020 election. His supporters hold influence at every level of the party and have passed laws making it harder to vote. While out of office, Trump is able to position himself as an outsider and agent of change. His disruptive behavior and politically incorrect rhetoric energize his base of supporters who dislike the political establishment. Even when president, Trump portrayed himself as opposing the establishment. A victory in Iowa's Republican primary validates Trump's campaign operation and makes him the clear frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination. However, his 2020 loss came from weak support among moderate voters in suburban areas, which may not carry over to other states.
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from the Republican National Committee, which never made him pay a price for skipping
campaign debates that it sanctioned. And Trump’s supporters now hold influence and power at every level of the Republican Party across the country. Many have taken legislative action in the wake of his false claims of fraud in 2020 that have made it harder to vote and easier to interfere in elections.
Yet while Trump’s effective incumbency is a huge factor, the fact he is out of power also allows him, paradoxically, to run as a candidate of change. The roles are reversed from 2020. Biden is the one in office and now has a more recent White House record than Trump’s to be judged on. But even when he was in the Oval Office, Trump never forgot that his magnetism among GOP voters lies in always being the outsider and a disruptor. His unhinged behavior, incessant shattering of rules and challenges to the law reinvigorated a brand perfectly tailored to Republican voters who despise “elites” in politics, government and the media. His uncouth language and politically incorrect jokes about the late Sen. John McCain and former President Jimmy Carter, who is in hospice care, only reinforce the impression he says what many of his supporters think.
In a flash of self-awareness, Trump explained his political method when he told North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who endorsed him after his failed 2024 campaign, “You need controversy for traction sometimes.” In recent days, DeSantis has tried to position Trump as the “establishment.” But it’s a hopeless strategy: even when the front-runner was the head of the US government and his portrait was on the wall of every US government office and embassy, he was a scourge of the establishment.
A victory heard around the world
Trump’s win makes the long theoretical prospect that he could win the White House a far more direct possibility. Barring some unforeseen event, his dominance in Iowa shows the extreme difficulty any of his remaining rivals will have of keeping him off the Republican ticket. And recent polls have shown him highly competitive and even ahead of Biden in the handful of swing states that will decide the destiny of the White House. In a nation split down the middle, the election will be close whatever happens. It may concern Democrats that while Trump hasn’t toned down the unhinged wildness of his public appearances, his victory in Iowa was the first validation of a far more professional political operation than he deployed in either the 2016 or 2020 elections.
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Still, the Biden campaign, beset by growing concern among Democrats about the president’s reelection prospects, has argued that a big victory for Trump in Iowa would begin to awaken Americans who rejected him in 2020 of the real danger that he could recapture the White House. While Trump was strong even in suburban areas around Des Moines, this may not translate into a similar performance among more moderate voters in corresponding areas in less conservative states. Trump’s deficit among this group nationwide cost him the 2020 election. Trump’s triumph will also reverberate around the world, a
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