The Iowa Caucuses Recap

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🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The stakes are high in Iowa, as voters head to the polls in record-breaking cold and snow.

It's the first contest in the Republican presidential primary. Donald Trump maintains a lead among GOP voters. And according to a new poll, Republican county chairs in Iowa feel the same.

We discuss what the results of the Iowa caucus tell us about the right's playing field this election season. We also take a look at what we've learned from the 2020 Democratic caucus.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message come from SAP Concur, a leading brand for integrated travel expense and invoice management solutions.
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0:14.0	Learn more at concur.com. Well, I want to thank everybody. This has been some period of time and most importantly
0:28.8	we want to thank the great people of Iowa. Thank you. We love you all. What a turnout, what a crowd.
0:37.0	That's right, the Iowa caucuses are over and at the top of the ticket the result is the one that most people expected
0:45.2	Donald Trump scored 51% of the vote with the Associated Press calling that race
0:50.1	just a half an hour after voting began.
0:53.4	Florida Governor Rhonda Santis ended up in second
0:55.9	with former South Carolina Governor Nicky Haley
0:58.7	right behind him in close third.
1:00.4	It was the first contest in the Republican presidential nominating race.
1:05.0	Next week the race moves on to New Hampshire of course and between now and then we might learn
1:10.0	if Donald Trump's claims of immunity hold up in court or whether the federal
1:15.6	criminal trial over an attempted coup in 2020 is back on track to take place
1:20.6	before the 2024 election and all of that really really matters as
1:26.2	this race goes forward but what do the results in Iowa tell us about this Republican
1:31.7	field and what is the state of the Republican Party and why does
1:35.4	it matter that Iowa at least for Republicans still goes first in this contest.
1:40.8	I'm Todd's Willick in for White, you're listening to the one a
1:43.8	podcast where we get to the heart of the story. We'll get to all that and more
1:48.3	right after the break, so stay with us.
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