The Republican 2024 presidential primary race recently kicked off with Iowa’s Republican Caucuses, solidifying former President Donald Trump‘s dominance with 51 percent of the vote, amid the GOP front-runner bouncing from the courtroom for criminal and civil cases to the campaign trail.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis finished in a distant second place there, while former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley came in third place.
According to an ABC News report, those results reaffirmed what polling has shown for a while: Many, if not all, Republican voters still favor Trump as their GOP nominee to likely face off with President Joe Biden.
Despite Trump’s win, lower turnout at the polls in Iowa prompted fears about a drop in euthanism in the former president’s campaign compared to his 2016 run for the White House. Only 15 percent of Iowa’s registered Republicans showed up for last Monday’s caucuses, according to the Hill.
“I don’t think he has the same enthusiasm he did in 2016, but I think he has plenty to become the nominee,” Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah told the outlet.
Following his struggling presidential campaign and loss to Trump in the Iowa Caucuses, DeSantis dropped out of the 2024 GOP primary race a few days before the New Hampshire primary. He announced Sunday on the same social media platform where he delivered his glitchy presidential bid while endorsing Trump.
Overall, polls forecast an uphill battle for Haley to compete with Trump throughout the 2024 primary race. DeSantis joins many other GOP candidates who have dropped out of the race, including, most recently, successful entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
Scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 23, the New Hampshire primary is the second Republican presidential nomination contest following the Iowa Caucuses, with 22 delegates at stake. Based on most polls, Trump also anticipates winning New Hampshire. And ABC News canceled a planned debate in New Hampshire after Haley said…
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