What the Iowa caucus results mean

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🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In American presidential politics, the starting gun has been fired in Iowa and former president Donald Trump has won the caucus convincingly. The real battle was for second place and an alternative to Trump. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took a narrow lead over former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Frank Lavin joins Christiane from Iowa to discuss these results, and New Hampshire’s primary next week. Also on today's show: Ecuador President Daniel Noboa; columnist Zeynep Tufekci Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammon poor here's what's coming up. A decisive
0:08.2	victory for Donald Trump in Iowa. I get the low down from Republican
0:12.3	donor Frank Levine on what this means for the US
0:15.3	election and for the world. Then a state of emergency in Ecuador I ask the
0:21.0	country's president about cracking down on gangs,
0:24.0	plus settler designs on Gaza.
0:27.0	We have a special report on the vision of Israel's far right.
0:31.0	Also ahead, a strong man president, the New York Times columnist
0:35.0	Zanep Tufecti joins Haris Trinovasen to explain Trump's lot on America's
0:40.5	far right. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. It's the day after the night
1:03.9	before in America's presidential politics. The starting gun was fired in
1:08.0	Iowa and former President Donald Trump won the caucus convincingly, taking more than half the vote, this despite
1:15.6	facing a slew of civil and criminal charges and after attempting to overturn
1:20.0	the 2020 election. Here he is speaking after the Iowa result.
1:24.6	People in our country are great, they're all great. We love Iowa but they're all great.
1:30.2	They only want to see one thing. They want our country to come back. They're embarrassed by what's going on. Our country is left at all over the world. They're laughing at us and they want our country is left at all over the world laughing at us and they want our country to
1:46.3	come back they want America you know they want us to be great again it's a very simple
1:50.7	magga make America great again.
1:55.0	It is the same speech all these years later, but if evangelicals were always going to put Trump over the top,
2:01.0	the real battle was for second place and a so-called convincing
2:05.5	alternative to Trump. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis eked out a narrow lead over the former
2:11.4	South Carolina Governor Nicki Haley. Now all eyes are turned
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