Stu does America, the State of the Race.

Welcome to the State of the Race.

It is January 16, 2024.

294 days until the general election, 39 days until South Carolina, and only seven days, one week

until the New Hampshire primary. What's to come up in this episode?

Well, you probably know the results.

We actually have votes to talk about in Iowa,

and Trump wins Iowa bigly.

The Vake Ramaswami drops out and Aisa Hutchinson somehow

finishes in six place and Aisa Hutchinson somehow finishes in sixth place in a five-person race.

Let's get right to our key metric which is pretty easy on a day like today

the results of the Iowa Caucasus. Let's go through it from top to bottom.

Donald Trump, a huge win over 50% of the vote.

That was sort of the benchmark everyone was talking about going into this race.

51% is where Trump finishes up.

He gets 20 delegates. Ron DeSantis finishes second with 21.2% and 8 delegates.

Nicki Haley 19.1% and 7 delegates.

And Vavake Ramaswami 7% and 3 delegates. It was, as expected because of the weather lightly attended.

About 110,000 people were out to participate in the Caucasus, which is much, much lower than you would have expected it.

They thought maybe they'd even get to 200,000 if the weather was normal.

But it was not normal.

It was very, very cold. And still 110,000 people braved the elements to go out and

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