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Daily News, News

4.612.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The Iowa caucuses are officially over. Donald Trump won as expected with just over 50 percent of the vote, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came in second and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley came in third. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy finished in fourth place, and suspended his campaign just minutes after the polls closed and then endorsed Trump. We’re joined by Eugene Scott, senior politics reporter for Axios, to break down the results and turnout in Iowa.

And in headlines: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital, the Biden Administration sent a cease-and-desist to Texas officials to stop blocking Border Patrol agents from the border, and we recap last night’s Primetime Emmy Awards.

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0:00.0

It's Tuesday, January 16th.

0:03.2

I'm Josie Duffy Rice.

0:04.4

And I'm Travel Anderson, and this is what a day,

0:07.5

where we hosts could be the world's first trillionaire.

0:11.6

Yeah, the organization Oxfam said yesterday that the wealth gap is growing so fast that the first trillionaire will appear in 10 years and it's looking like it might be us.

0:20.8

Well, maybe it's gonna be you. My bank account does not particularly say

0:25.2

that but everything is possible, okay? Everything is possible. On today's show the

0:32.2

deadly extreme cold continues to grip the country plus

0:35.4

defense secretary Lloyd Austin is finally out of the hospital.

0:39.2

But first y'all the Iowa Caucasus are over, praise the Lord, and as expected, Trump is the winner.

0:47.6

He came through with over 50% of the votes.

0:51.0

Here he is during his victory speech last night.

0:54.0

Well I want to thank everybody.

0:56.0

This has been some period of time and most importantly we want to thank the great people of Iowa. Thank you.

1:04.0

Oh my God.

1:05.0

Really could have done without ever hearing not again.

1:10.0

Fine, fine, fine. The interesting thing here though is Trump's victory was called so early

1:16.9

that some caucus goers got a push notification on their phones that he had won Iowa

1:22.4

before they had even cast their vote. Okay? That's how wide of

1:28.7

a lead that he had. But let's be honest, the real reason we were all tuned in was the race for second and third place,

1:36.7

aka the Participation Awards. And Ron DeSantis took second with just over 20% of the vote and barely eked ahead of Nicky Haley who came

1:46.2

in third and after Vivek Ramaswami finished in fourth place, he called it quits just minutes after the polls closed, suspended his campaign, and you

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