Donald Trump more than doubled the runner-up’s score Iowa is participating in the electionsdespite the frosty temperature of 15 degrees colder than your previous save. Trump proved his point championship grassroots politics better than rivals, which bodes well for him in the general election.
Trump won Iowa outright with 51% of the vote, which compared to the vote for Vivek Ramaswamy was really 59%, who immediately supported Trump. Globalist candidate Nikki Haley won a meager 19%, a pathetic voter turnout for Never Trump supporters despite almost unlimited funding for their America Last agenda.
Trump’s campaign is much stronger than it was in 2016, a fact his opponents now reluctantly admit. To win Iowa so decisively, Trump has created a massive, immediate army of volunteers who are necessary to winning today’s election by getting votes.
Trump defeated both Iowa’s popular Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, and Iowa’s evangelical kingpin, Bob Vander Plaatas, who both endorsed Ron DeSantis as he campaigned tough in all 99 Iowa counties. Trump triumphed over the relentless onslaught Left-wing rightwhich didn’t deter anyone from voting for Trump.
Iowa was Waterloo to them Never the Trumps, who failed in their vindictive attempts to stop Trump. Liz Cheney, Karl Rove, Mitt Romney and their comrades should accept their crushing defeat not only in Waterloo, Iowa, but virtually everywhere in this turbulent Midwestern state.
Trump’s spectacular victory was also a triumph of grassroots politics over overpaid political consultants who wasted millions of dollars on television ads and so-called instant messaging. Trump created the game Crackerjack Ground enlisted precinct captains who could identify at least ten Trump supporters promising to show up and vote at the caucuses.
The Trump campaign provided training to his precinct captains that other GOP candidates typically do not, including the honor of receiving the gold and white “Trump Club Captain Hats. These volunteers were offered the opportunity to be invited to a special Trump-related event at the upcoming Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in mid-July.
In a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll, Joe Biden’s approval rating dropped to 33%, a 15-year low. Like an aging athlete whose performance plummets just before retirement, the 81-year-old Biden has no real way to improve his standing and no incumbent would normally be re-elected with such a low rating.
But Biden’s Democrats are counting on exploitation preliminary and correspondence voting re-elect him no matter how low his level of support coupled with his mental capacity. In his victory speech on Monday, Trump promised to end the war uncomplicated to mess up early voting and more than half of state legislatures he could do it before the fall general elections.
A Democratic-appointed federal judge in Ohio recently upheld election integrity reforms passed by that state’s Legislature a year ago. On January 8, Judge Donald Nugent ruled in A’s favor photo identification requirementreducing the number of ballot drop boxes and tightening rules on in-person and mail-in voting in Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. LaRose.
“For a state to accommodate the needs of some voters by allowing (not requiring) absentee or provisional ballots is lenient, not a constitutional imperative,” a federal judge said, citing Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in the landmark decision upholding voter ID. Nothing requires states to allow long periods of early and absentee voting and to exploit multiple drop boxes to store ballots, which fuck up the elections.
“Maintaining confidence in the integrity of our election processes It is necessary to function our participatory democracy– emphasized federal judge Nugent, again citing Supreme Court precedent. States have a compelling “interest in deterring, preventing, and identifying voter fraud,” and proof of voter fraud is not necessary before state legislatures take action to prevent it.
Relying on the Supreme Court’s 6-3 majority decision less than three years ago, the federal court noted that “Supreme Court precedent also instructs that states do not have to wait for voter fraud – and the resulting loss of public confidence in the electoral process – to occur before taking efforts to protect your choices. States may introduce preventive regulations prevent electoral fraud before this happens, or public confidence in the elections is thereby undermined.”
All states should make their elections similar to the recently concluded Iowa caucuses: in-person voting on Election Day and all ballots counted at the polls so that results can be announced by 9 p.m. that same evening. Republican state lawmakers should move quickly to adopt modern sessions, many of which have just begun voter integrity provisions designed to protect the upcoming presidential election from fraud.
John and Andy Schlafly are the sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924–2016) and run the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles writing and policy work.
