Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> surrounded himself with potential running mates and other allies on Saturday during the Republican National Committee (RNC) spring retreat at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
Among those who joined Trump on stage in the Grand Ballroom for a lunch event were Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Tim Scott (R-SC), entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, all former 2024 presidential rivals now considered to be in the running for vice president, according to a post to X from his campaign.
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), and Reps. Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Wesley Hunt (R-TX), who have all been mentioned as part of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kellyanne-conway-offers-insight-into-trump-veepstakes-suggests-person-of-color" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Veepstakes</a> this election cycle, also attended.
Other Republicans who were present included House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Reps. Jim Banks (R-IN), who is running for Senate; Michael Waltz (R-FL); Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick; and Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno.
During the event, Trump recognized the RNC&#8217;s fundraising efforts and &#8220;enthusiasm&#8221; for his &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; movement, per his campaign. He spoke for around 90 minutes about the presidential race, election integrity, the economy, the border, and protests taking place on university campuses. He also touted Johnson&#8217;s work as a speaker and advocated for party unity.
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On a picture-perfect Palm Beach Saturday, in the Grand Ballroom of the Mar-a-Lago Club, more than 400 seated guests enjoyed a gourmet lunch while hearing Mr. Vivek Ramaswamy, Congressman Byron Donalds, and Congressman Wesley Hunt deliver remarks as part of the pre-program.    At… <a href="https://t.co/WXOBIaYIM0">pic.twitter.com/WXOBIaYIM0</a>
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Trump recently suggested that he may select a running mate in the next couple of months before the Republican National Convention, which is scheduled to take place in Milwaukee in mid-July. &#8220;We’ll be making that decision I think closer to Wisconsin time,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=GZhBIHr5v2U" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told FOX6 News Milwaukee</a> last week. He added, &#8220;It&#8217;s very early right now.&#8221;
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In the 2016 and 2020 elections, Trump ran with former Vice President Mike Pence, a former governor of Indiana. Pence led his own presidential campaign in the 2024 election cycle but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-pence-suspends-2024-presidential-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped out</a> in late October before the start of the GOP primary contests.
Trump recently met with one of his other former 2024 Republican primary rivals, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Both indicated they had a productive conversation and made plans to defeat President Joe Biden in the November election.

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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre couldn&#8217;t stop laughing on Monday about speculation that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-campaign-quietly-removes-ad-featuring-struggling-small-business-owner-who-was-actually-wealthy-angel-investor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jason-and-travis-kelce-reveal-taylor-swift-and-kylie-kelces-reaction-to-eagles-shirtless-antics-at-chiefs-bills-game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taylor Swift</a> might team up for the 2024 election.
During a live interview on &#8220;<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/jean-pierre-cant-stop-laughing-as-cnn-anchor-grills-her-about-taylor-swift-and-biden-team-up/">CNN News Central</a>,&#8221; anchor John Berman asked Jean-Pierre to respond to a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/politics/biden-trump-election-taylor-swift.html">New York Times article</a> about efforts to get Swift involved in Biden&#8217;s re-election campaign. Berman asked specifically about one part of the article that referenced &#8220;sending the president to a stop on Swift&#8217;s Eras tour.&#8221; 
&#8220;So what would Swift’s support give the president?&#8221; the CNN anchor asked. &#8220;Any plans? Any plans to go on tour?&#8221;
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The White House Press Secretary laughed before she replied, &#8220;So let me first say I got to be really mindful. I&#8217;m a federal employee. As you know, there&#8217;s something called the Hatch Act, so certainly cannot speak to anything that is related to 2024 an upcoming election.&#8221;
&#8220;So going to be super, super mindful obviously,&#8221; she added. &#8220;There are a lot of I know, in my shop in the press office shop, there are a lot of Swifties. If you were, if you will, fans of Taylor Swift. And so I&#8217;m just going to leave it there.&#8221;
The laughter continued, and Jean-Pierre made it clear more than once that she wasn&#8217;t going to get &#8220;into the president&#8217;s schedule at all from here. As it relates to the 2024 elections.&#8221;
In another part of the article, the Times suggested that Biden aides are &#8220;drafting wish lists of potential surrogates,&#8221; social media influencers, and &#8220;the endorsement of their wildest dreams,&#8221; being that of Swift.
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A Swift endorsement of Biden has even extended to the football world, with former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy alluding on <a href="https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1751944730114498838?s=20">X</a> that Super Bowl LVIII is <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/vivek-ramaswamy-predicts-super-bowl-will-be-rigged-for-chiefs-to-set-the-table-for-artificially-propped-up-taylor-swifts-endorsement-of-biden/">rigged</a> to allow for a presidential endorsement from Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/travis-kelce-shuts-down-retirement-speculation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Travis Kelce</a>.  Kelce&#8217;s team punched their ticket to the Super Bowl on Sunday with a 17-10 victory over the Baltimore Ravens. 
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&#8220;I wonder who&#8217;s going to win the Super Bowl next month,&#8221; Ramaswamy wrote. &#8220;And I wonder if there&#8217;s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall.&#8221;
&#8220;Just some wild speculation over here; let&#8217;s see how it ages over the next eight months,&#8221; he added. 
The Chiefs will face off against San Francisco following the 49ers&#8217; come-from-behind victory against the Detroit Lions on Sunday, February 11.
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Former Arkansas Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/asa-hutchinson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asa Hutchinson</a> said on Tuesday that he was dropping out of the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. 
Hutchinson’s announcement came after a poor performance on Monday at the Iowa caucuses, where he picked up less than half a percent of the vote. Former President Donald Trump dominated, winning 51% of the votes and all but one of Iowa’s 99 counties. 
“I congratulate Donald J. Trump for his win last night in Iowa and to the other candidates who competed and garnered delegate support,” Hutchinson <a href="https://twitter.com/brianneDMR/status/1747283577924927559" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Today, I am suspending my campaign for President and driving back to Arkansas. My message of being a principled Republican with experience and telling the truth about the current front runner did not sell in Iowa.”
Hutchinson became the second candidate to drop out after the caucus, following tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. His campaign failed to garner much support, and he did not qualify for any debates after the first. He was far behind the other trailing Republican candidates, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (21.2%), former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley (19.1%), and Ramaswamy (7.7%).  
“I stand by the campaign I ran. I answered every question, sounded the warning to the GOP about the risks in 2024 and presented hope for our country’s future,” Hutchinson said. 
The former governor was a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-gop-governor-announces-presidential-bid-calls-on-trump-to-drop-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">frequent critic</a> of Trump and launched his campaign by calling on Trump to drop out. Before announcing his run last year, Hutchinson promised “to do everything” to ensure that Trump did not get the Republican nomination.
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“I mean, first of all, the office is more important than any individual person,” Hutchinson said in April during his announcement. “And so for the sake of the office of the presidency, I do think that’s too much of a sideshow and distraction and he needs to be able to concentrate on his due process and there is a presumption of innocence.”
Hutchinson also faced criticism on the campaign trail over his past veto of a bill banning transgender procedures for minors during his time as governor. He said he opposed the bill because of parental rights and limited government. 
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Pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the Republican Party presidential primary race on Monday night after polling in the low single digits and endorsed former President Donald Trump, who he has aggressively championed on the campaign trail.
Ramaswamy made the announcement while speaking to a group of supporters in Iowa, saying that there was no path forward for him to become president.
As he said that he announced that he was suspending his campaign and endorsing Trump, his audience went completely silent with one person shouting, &#8220;Don&#8217;t do it!&#8221;
Ramaswamy said that he and Trump were the only &#8220;America First&#8221; candidates who were in the race which comes after the former president attacked him on social media over the week, saying that Ramaswamy was &#8220;not MAGA.&#8221;
“Vivek started his campaign as a great supporter, ‘the best President in generations,’ etc.,” Trump wrote. “Unfortunately, now all he does is disguise his support in the form of deceitful campaign tricks. Very sly, but a vote for Vivek is a vote for the ‘other side’ — don’t get duped by this.”
“Vote for ‘TRUMP,’ don’t waste your vote! Vivek is not MAGA,” Trump continued. “The Biden Indictments against his Political Opponent will never be allowed in this Country, they are already beginning to fall! MAGA!!!”
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Former President Donald Trump has won the Iowa Caucuses.
Trump led the field, sitting at 51%, with around 90% of the vote counted Monday night, according to Decision Desk HQ. DeSantis was sitting in second with 21.3%, and Haley was in third with 19%. Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy was in fourth at 7.7%.
The race was called with an unusually low percentage of the vote counted, as multiple outlets — including Fox News, CNN, NBC News, and the Associated Press — all called the race for Trump with just 1% of the vote counted.
With that 1% of the vote in, Trump stood at 53.6%, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was in second place at 20.8%, and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was in third at 17.6%, according to <a href="https://decisiondeskhq.com/iowa-republican-presidential-caucus-results/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Decision Desk HQ</a>. Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy was in fourth at 6.6%.
In a speech following the caucuses, Trump congratulated his GOP opponents, saying they all did &#8220;very well.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to congratulate Ron and Nikki for a good time together. &#8230; I think they both actually did very well. I really do,&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;I also want to congratulate Vivek because he did a hell of a job,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;He came from zero &#8230; and he got probably 8%.&#8221;
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The media outlets that called the race before many Iowans had even voted were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/news-media-slammed-for-calling-iowa-caucuses-before-voting-began-in-many-areas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> by reporters and commentators.
“It’s indefensible to declare a winner in that situation before all votes are cast,” said National Review Senior Writer Dan McLaughlin.
Semafor political reporter David Weigel wrote: “The very very early results show Trump winning big, but the early network call is a little questionable. People are still at caucus sites, and they have phones — how many people see the call and bail?”
Washington Post reporter Michael Scherer noted: “AP has a policy not to call ‘the winner of a race before all the polls in a jurisdiction are scheduled to close.’ Tonight AP/CNN/Etc. called the race after the caucus doors closed, but BEFORE all votes were cast. People could see on their phones that Trump won before voting.”
Voters braved below-zero temperatures on Monday night, making it the <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/weather/2024/01/15/subzero-temps-to-make-coldest-caucus-on-record-tonight-downright-dangerous/72228056007/">coldest</a> Iowa Caucuses since its beginning in 1972. Projections <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/live-blog/iowa-election-2024-live-updates-rcna133678" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> that around 120,000 voters went out to caucus, far lower than the record 187,000 voters that came out to vote in the 2016 caucuses. Heading into the day, many anticipated weather-suppressed turnout that would likely end up favoring the candidate with the most enthusiastic support, assumed to be the polling frontrunner, Trump. In fact several candidates warned against reading too much into the outcome as result of the conditions. 
Trump dominated the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/republican-primary/2024/iowa-caucus">early polling</a> leading up to the Iowa Caucuses, consistently leading his GOP opponents by more than 30 points. Haley recently took a small lead over DeSantis in a few polls in Iowa, but the two candidates remained neck-and-neck through Monday, tying in many of the final surveys.
The DeSantis campaign placed a strong emphasis on Iowa and its large Evangelical base that the Florida governor is hoping to court. DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/influential-evangelical-leader-in-iowa-endorses-desantis-for-president">earned</a> the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-enormous-win-popular-iowa-governor-kim-reynolds-to-endorse-ron-desantis-for-president-report">endorsements</a> of Bob Vander Plaats, an influential Evangelical leader in the state, and Iowa’s popular Republican Governor Kim Reynolds. Both endorsements were seen as big wins for a DeSantis campaign in need of a boost. The governor’s ground game was extensive, and DeSantis <a href="https://www.kcci.com/article/ron-desantis-completes-full-grassley-in-iowa-visits-all-99-counties/46017977">completed</a> the “Full Grassley” in December, a tour named after Iowa GOP Senator Chuck Grassley who visits each of the state’s 99 counties each year. 
Haley, who wasn’t initially expected to perform well in the state, jumped in the polls in the past few months, her appeal to independents and even some Democrats <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/us/politics/nikki-haley-democrats-independents.html">cited</a> by some analysts as part of the reason she was gaining momentum in Iowa in particular. The former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. under Trump is looking to make her case that she stands as the top Republican alternative to Trump and has frequently sparred with the other contenders over her more centrist policy positions.
Ramaswamy was hoping to surprise the political world with a solid performance in Iowa despite consistently polling in the single digits in the state. Ramaswamy campaigned aggressively in the Hawkeye State leading up to the caucuses, completing the “Full Grassley” <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2024/01/03/vivek-ramaswamy-campaigns-in-all-99-iowa-counties-twice/72083818007/">twice</a>, according to his campaign. 
Meanwhile, numerous sitting U.S. congressmen and senators have publicly backed Trump in recent weeks, solidifying the former president’s standing as the frontrunner in the Republican primary. Citing his strong poll numbers, Trump skipped each of the first five Republican primary debates, including the debate last week in Des Moines, Iowa, where DeSantis and Haley took the stage. 
The DeSantis and Haley campaigns, along with outside groups aligned with them, have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/15/politics/advertising-spending-iowa-republicans/index.html">spent</a> far more than the other candidates on ads in Iowa. Around $37 has been spent on pro-Haley ads in the state through January 12 compared to $35 million on pro-DeSantis ads and $18.3 million on pro-Trump ads. 
Multiple Republican candidates, including former Vice President Mike Pence and South Carolina Governor Tim Scott, have dropped out of the race with former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie ending his campaign just last week, a move projected to provide a slight boost to Haley&#8217;s campaign. 
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-many-delegates-does-iowa-have-2024/">Forty delegates</a> were up for grabs in Iowa on Monday night and will be allocated proportionally to candidates based on their performance in the caucuses. To win the GOP nomination, a Republican candidate must reach at least <a href="https://www.270towin.com/2024-republican-nomination/">1,215 delegates</a> of the estimated 2,429 delegates obtainable in all 50 states and five U.S. territories. 
While a win in Iowa offers candidates some early momentum, Republicans who won the Iowa Caucuses in recent competitive races didn’t fare well in the remaining GOP primary. In 2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) won in the caucuses, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) won in 2012, and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee won the state in 2008, but all three of those candidates went on to lose the Republican primary.
Next week, candidates are slated to face off at the polls again — this time in New Hampshire for the first-in-the-nation primary. 
This article will be updated as additional results come in.

Trump Wins Iowa Caucuses

In the final hours before the first-in-the-nation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/iowa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iowa</a> caucuses, the top 2024 Republican presidential candidates are making their pitches to convince voters why they would be the best to take on President Joe Biden.
Ahead of the voting, former President Donald Trump has established a large lead in the polls over former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Frigid temperatures and snow may impact turnout at the Monday caucus as the candidates urge their supporters to brave the elements for them. 
During a rally on Sunday in Indianola, Trump told his supporters that Monday’s vote would be an opportunity to send a message to the D.C. establishment. 
“These caucuses are your personal chance to score the ultimate victory over all of the liars, cheaters, thugs, perverts, frauds, crooks, freaks, creeps and other quite nice people,” he <a href="https://apnews.com/article/iowa-caucus-trump-desantis-haley-republican-president-837e13bd05632ae4167d83a9633c3018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “The Washington swamp has done everything in its power to take away your voice. But tomorrow is your time to turn on them and to say and speak your mind and to vote.”
DeSantis, who has focused much of his campaign on Iowa, urged his supporters to show up for him on Monday, saying he would fight for them in Washington. 
“Our responsibility is to carry the torch and conserve the sacred fire of liberty. You will have an ability to do that Monday night. I will take that torch into the remaining states and continue with this nomination battle,” DeSantis <a href="https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1746718926900204009" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in Akeny on Sunday evening. “I will be a candidate that will sweep us to victory — just like we did in Florida in record fashion — but more importantly than that, as a leader, I’ll always be somebody that you can be proud of.”
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Haley, who has climbed in some recent polling, also was confident on Sunday that she would perform well in Iowa. 
“I think we’ve always had a target on our back because we’ve been the one moving up. Everybody else is going down, and that’s a great thing,” she <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4408233-desantis-haley-express-confidence-ahead-of-iowa-caucus-despite-falling-behind-trump/">said</a>. “But the real poll, you know, is on caucus day. And what we’ve said is we just want to come out of Iowa looking strong. We want to come out of New Hampshire strong. We want to come out of South Carolina strong.”
Ramaswamy, who also has spent a lot of time in Iowa, has predicted that he will be victorious. 
“I think we’re going to win the Iowa caucus, and that’s going to propel us to the next phase of this race,” he <a href="https://www.ktiv.com/2024/01/14/despite-cold-vivek-ramaswamy-holds-sioux-city-townhall/">said</a>. “The polls are totally off, many of the caucus-goers who are supporting us are first-time caucus-goers. I think that’s got the race set up exactly the way we want it. The expectations are set moderately for me, but we’re going to shatter those expectations.”
The caucus starts at 8:00 p.m. EST Monday, with only registered Republicans having the opportunity to vote. Caucus goers will be given an opportunity to hear from candidate representatives before casting a secret ballot for their preference. Republicans will meet at 1,657 precincts across the state’s 99 counties.
In Iowa, there are 40 delegates that can be won, with the percentage of the vote you win determining how many delegates you are allocated. There are 2,429 for the entire Republican presidential race.
While holding a caucus, Iowa Democrats <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/iowa-democrats-new-caucus-process-work/story?id=106133768" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will</a> not be voting on Monday, but will be casting ballots by mail. The ballots started to go out on January 12 and will be accepted until Super Tuesday on March 5. Biden, Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips, and Marianne Williamson will all be on the ballot. The Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dnc-ditches-iowa-chooses-south-carolina-as-first-presidential-primary-state-to-prioritize-black-voters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decided</a> to ditch Iowa because it said it wanted to prioritize non-white voters.
Next week, New Hampshire will hold its first-in-the-nation primary on January 23, bucking the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s wish to have South Carolina be the first primary. There will be 22 Republican delegates up for grabs there. Biden will not be on the ballot in New Hampshire, but his team has pushed for Democrats to write in the president.
The first presidential primary the DNC will be holding will be in South Carolina on February 3. The <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-primary-elections/calendar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">next</a> Republican caucus will be in Nevada and the Virgin Islands on February 8.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iowa-gop-caucus-all-the-final-polls">Iowa GOP Caucus: All The Final Polls</a>

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Former President Donald Trump unloaded on GOP primary competitor Vivek Ramaswamy ahead of the Iowa Caucuses on Monday.
The former president, who is leading in the final Iowa Caucus <a href="https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1746353987488510298">poll</a>, took a shot at Ramaswamy, who sits in fourth place in the Republican primary field, on social media Saturday evening.
&#8220;Vivek started his campaign as a great supporter, &#8216;the best President in generations,&#8217; etc.,&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;Unfortunately, now all he does is disguise his support in the form of deceitful campaign tricks. Very sly, but a vote for Vivek is a vote for the &#8216;other side&#8217; — don’t get duped by this.&#8221;
&#8220;Vote for &#8216;TRUMP,&#8217; don’t waste your vote! Vivek is not MAGA,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;The Biden Indictments against his Political Opponent will never be allowed in this Country, they are already beginning to fall! MAGA!!!&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s attack on Ramaswamy comes after he has praised Ramaswamy throughout the early primary season as Ramaswamy has frequently <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/election-2024/vivek-ramaswamy-told-allies-hes-running-to-sabotage-ron-desantis-report/">taken aim</a> at Trump&#8217;s competitors and often aggressively defended the former president.
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Ramaswamy responded to Trump&#8217;s attack by speculating that it was his campaign advisors who told him to do it, and he did not think that &#8220;friendly fire is helpful.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m worried for Trump. I’m worried for our country,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I’ve stood up against the persecutions against Trump, and I’ve defended him at every step. I showed up at the Miami courthouse in solidarity following his first federal indictment. I filed a FOIA demand to the Biden DOJ. I submitted an amicus brief this week with the U.S. Supreme Court calling on them to overturn Colorado’s ruling. I pledged to remove myself from Maine’s &amp; Colorado’s primary ballots if they remove Trump, calling on DeSantis and Haley to do the same.&#8221;

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The latest polls of the Iowa caucuses show former President Donald Trump retaining a large lead in the state, holding over 50% of Republican support just five days before 2024 primary voting officially kicks off, according to the Real Clear Politics <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/republican-primary/2024/iowa-caucus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">average</a>. 
As of Wednesday afternoon, Trump leads the GOP field in Iowa with 52.2% as former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (16.6%) and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (16.4%) fight for second place in the polls, per the RCP average. Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy (7%), former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (3.4%), and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (0.6%) round out the GOP candidates heading into the Iowa caucuses, which take place on Monday, January 15. 
The most recent poll, conducted between January 6 and January 8, comes from the Trafalgar Group, which puts Trump at 52% and Haley and DeSantis both at 18%. All other GOP candidates were under 6%, according to Trafalgar. A Morning Consult poll conducted between January 1 and January 7 has Trump at 58%, Haley in second at 15%, and DeSantis in third at 14%. Ramaswamy polled much better in the Morning Consult survey, hitting 10%, while Christie remained at 3%. 
Haley and DeSantis will take the stage in Des Moines on Wednesday evening to face off in a CNN debate. Meanwhile, Trump, who qualified for the debate, will instead <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-skip-cnn-gop-debate-participate-in-fox-news-town-hall-scheduled-for-same-time" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sit down</a> with Fox News hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum for a town hall, which will also take place in Des Moines. 
The Haley-DeSantis debate will be the smallest yet in the GOP primary, and CNN <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/live-blog/2024-election-republican-debate-live-updates-rcna132591" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the debate will focus on “women’s issues.” 
The fifth Republican presidential debate of the 2024 season will also be the fifth that Trump, the leading candidate in the field, will skip. The former president has cited his large polling lead over the rest of the Republican field as why he does not attend the debates, sparking the ire of his GOP competitors.
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“With only three candidates qualifying for the CNN debate, it’s time for Donald Trump to show up. As the debate stage continues to shrink, it’s getting harder for Donald Trump to hide,” Haley said last week. 
DeSantis has also hit Trump for refusing to attend previous debates, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/politics/cnn-iowa-debate-qualified/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> in late December, “He’s not been willing to come here and answer questions.” 
“He parachutes in for 30, 45-minute, hour speech and then just leaves, rather than listening to Iowans answering questions and doing, I think, what it takes to win,” the Florida governor added.

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Two Republican presidential candidates criticized former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday for remarks that she made this week about slavery and the Civil War.
Haley, who is also running for president, faced backlash Wednesday night after she answered a voter’s question on the cause of the Civil War without mentioning slavery.
“Well, don’t come with an easy question, right?” Haley said. “I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run. The freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do.”
Haley then asked the voter what he thought was behind the deadliest war in American history, to which he responded, “I’m not running for president.”
Haley then added, “I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are. And I will always stand by the fact that I think government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people … We need to have capitalism. We need to have economic freedom. We need to make sure that we do all things so that individuals have the liberties so that they can have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to do or be anything they want to be without government getting in the way.”
The voter wasn’t impressed with Haley’s answer, however, and slammed her for not mentioning slavery in her response.
“Thank you. In the year 2023, it’s astonishing to me that you’d answer that question without mentioning the word ‘slavery,&#8217;” he said.
“What do you want me to say about slavery?” Haley shot back before moving on to the next question.
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On Thursday morning, Haley was on local New Hampshire radio shows to comment on the town hall Q&amp;A and the answer she gave on the Civil War.
“Yes, we know the Civil War was about slavery,” Haley said. “But more than that, what’s the lesson in all this? That freedom matters. And individual rights and liberties matter for all people. That’s the blessing of America. That was a stain on America when we had slavery. But what we want is never [to] relive it. Never let anyone take those freedoms away again.”
Haley also <a href="https://twitter.com/NewHampJournal/status/1740375525754052846" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the person who asked her the question at the town hall was a “Democrat plant,” adding that she is facing heat because Democrats want to run against former President Donald Trump.
“Why are they hitting me? See this for what it is… They want to run against Trump. In town halls, I answer every question, and they are planting questions there,” <a href="https://twitter.com/NewHampJournal/status/1740375039382532451" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Haley, according to the New Hampshire Journal.
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Nikki Haley was asked by a voter in New Hampshire tonight about the cause of the Civil War. “I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run. The freedoms and what people couldn&#39;t do,” Haley answered. <a href="https://t.co/g9jUDqpa2F">pic.twitter.com/g9jUDqpa2F</a>
&mdash; Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1740199401925038111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis responded to Haley&#8217;s “incomprehensible word salad” while on the campaign trail in Iowa, saying that it showed she “is not a candidate that&#8217;s ready for primetime.&#8221;
&#8220;And she&#8217;s gotten a pretty free ride from a lot of the corporate press,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;The minute that she faces any type of scrutiny, she tends to cave and I think that that&#8217;s what you saw yesterday. Not that difficult to identify and acknowledge the role slavery played in the Civil War, and yet that seemed to be something that was really difficult. And I don&#8217;t even know what she was saying.&#8221;
&#8220;I know she&#8217;s trying to clean it up. I know she&#8217;s tried to blame a Democrat plant,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I mean, you&#8217;re gonna get asked a lot of tough questions — that&#8217;s just the nature of this business. And I think that she showed time and time again that when the lights get hot that she will wilt under pressure, and that was a good example last night.”
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DeSantis tells reporters that Nikki Haley’s answer last night on the cause of the civil war “shows this is not a candidate that’s ready for primetime.”
It’s “not that difficult to identify and acknowledge the role slavery played in the Civil War,” he added. <a href="https://t.co/4fzKt0lJeY">pic.twitter.com/4fzKt0lJeY</a>
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Asked what his answer would be to the question Haley got, DeSantis answered, &#8220;You have the issue of slavery; you have the states that were concerned about Lincoln interfering and potentially eliminating it and they viewed it as a states&#8217; rights issue, not as a federal issue and they were concerned that you have this Republican president, may come in and get rid of the institution of slavery. It&#8217;s interesting because the Republican Party was founded to put a stop to the growth of slavery in this country and the abolition of slavery was, to this day, remains the party&#8217;s top achievement. And it was a partisan achievement because the people that were fighting Lincoln, the people that wanted to preserve slavery, they were Democrats. And so the Republican Party did that, and that&#8217;s something that you should acknowledge and be proud of as a Republican.&#8221;
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Asked how he would’ve answered the initial voter Q Haley got, about what the cause of the Civil War was, DeSantis replied, “of course, you have the issue of slavery”
He then said the “abolition of slavery— to this day, remains the [Republican] party’s top achievement.” <a href="https://t.co/cW7PtpCiSq">pic.twitter.com/cW7PtpCiSq</a>
&mdash; aaron navarro (@aaronlarnavarro) <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronlarnavarro/status/1740443551186801150?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy responded to Haley&#8217;s remarks in a series of posts on X, writing: &#8220;The shocking part isn’t that Nikki failed to mention slavery. It’s that she failed to mention the 10th amendment. When you try to be everything to everyone, you’re nothing to anyone. A perfect puppet for the corrupt establishment.&#8221;
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The shocking part isn’t that Nikki failed to mention slavery. It’s that she failed to mention the 10th amendment. When you try to be everything to everyone, you’re nothing to anyone. A perfect puppet for the corrupt establishment.
&mdash; Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1740384354768187437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Ramaswamy also highlighted when Haley asked what the questioner wanted her to say about slavery.
&#8220;I think she mistook him for a Super PAC donor,&#8221; Ramaswamy said.
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“What do you want me to say about slavery?”
I think she mistook him for a Super PAC donor. <a href="https://t.co/aCNL1olSQi">https://t.co/aCNL1olSQi</a>
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&#8220;Turns out Nikki knows as little about the Civil War as she does about the Ukraine War,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But whatever war it was, I’m sure she’s in favor of it. 💵&#8221;
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Turns out Nikki knows as little about the Civil War as she does about the Ukraine War.
But whatever war it was, I’m sure she’s in favor of it. 💵 <a href="https://t.co/zJJSDc86Bc">pic.twitter.com/zJJSDc86Bc</a>
&mdash; Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1740420454551318690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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Former President Donald Trump has hit his largest GOP primary polling lead in the Real Clear Politics average of national polls as he also enjoys a consistent lead over President Joe Biden in a hypothetical 2024 general election matchup.
Trump is polling at a dominant 63.8% in <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RCP’s average</a> of national Republican primary polls as of Friday morning. The former president holds a 52-point lead over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (11.6%), who has dropped nearly three points since last month and is now neck-and-neck with former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (10.8%).   
The Republican candidates are just weeks away from their first true test in the Iowa caucuses on January 15 and then the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire on January 23. Trump’s polling lead in <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/ia/2024_iowa_republican_presidential_caucus-8164.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iowa</a> stands at 32 points as he pulls 51.3% support to DeSantis’ 18.6% and Haley’s 16.1%. In <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/nh/2024_new_hampshire_republican_presidential_primary-7396.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Hampshire</a>, Trump has a less comfortable lead, sitting at 46.3% while Haley comes in second at 24.8%. 
The latest polls of Iowa and New Hampshire showed Haley on an upward trajectory. In Iowa, the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. was tied with DeSantis for second place at 17% in the latest InsiderAdvantage poll, while she led DeSantis 17% to 15% in an Emerson survey conducted last weekend. The most recent Fox Business poll of Iowa showed DeSantis leading Haley 18% to 16% while Trump remained the dominant leader at 52%. 
The latest poll of New Hampshire conducted by St. Anselm showed Trump leading Haley by just 14 points. In the poll, Trump sat at 44% to Haley’s 30% while former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie came in third at 12%. DeSantis (6%) and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy (5%) came in third and fourth, respectively, in the New Hampshire <a href="https://www.anselm.edu/about/offices-centers-institutes/centers-institutes/new-hampshire-institute-politics/programs/polling/december-18-19-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> of nearly 2,000 likely primary voters. A UMass Lowell <a href="https://www.uml.edu/docs/NH-Dec-Topline_tcm18-378223.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> of 450 likely primary voters conducted earlier this month had markedly different results, showing Trump at 52%, Haley at 22%, DeSantis in third at 10%, Christie at 6%, and Ramaswamy at 4%.
Most early polls of the 2024 general election also show Trump in the lead. As of Friday morning, the former president leads Biden 46.8% to 44.5% in the RCP average. Trump’s polling lead comes amid even more controversy surrounding the former president after a Colorado Supreme Court ruling banned him from the state’s ballot. The state Supreme Court’s ruling cited the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause, arguing that he took part in an insurrection on January 6, 2021, “inciting the crowd that breached the U.S. Capitol.” 
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Senior White House and Biden campaign officials were reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-officials-fear-co-supreme-court-decision-against-trump-will-damage-presidents-re-election-message-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">angered</a> by the ruling. A source familiar with discussions in the Biden White House and Biden campaign told NBC News that the decision makes it look “like Colorado is attempting election interference through non-elected Democratic-appointed justices with funding from ‘shady left-wing donors.&#8217;”

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Entrepreneur <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vivek Ramaswamy</a> battled with CNN&#8217;s Abby Phillip during a Wednesday night town hall on the network over remarks that he has made about the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Phillip asked Ramaswamy about remarks that he made at the most recent Republican presidential primary debate when he suggested that the riot was an inside job.
&#8220;The next day, Capitol rioter Alan Hostetter highlighted your comments at his sentencing,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He is going to prison for 11 years. Hostetter threatened members of Congress. He brought a hatchet, knives, pepper spray, stun batons, tactical gear to the U.S. Capitol.&#8221;
&#8220;Are you concerned that a convicted felon like that is now promoting your comments in court?&#8221; she asked.
Ramaswamy responded by saying that before he became a political candidate, he was &#8220;just consuming passive media,&#8221; and that in the past, he would have labeled any talk about January 6 being &#8220;an inside job&#8221; as &#8220;crazy talk, fringe conspiracy theory nonsense.&#8221;
&#8220;I can tell you now, having gone somewhat deep in this, it&#8217;s not,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I mean, the reality is this. We do have a government, first of all, we have technology, that has lied to us systematically over the last several years about the origin of COVID-19, about the Hunter Biden laptop that we were told was false by 51 CIA experts and otherwise, before we now know that it was true.&#8221;
&#8220;You can go straight down the list, the Trump-Russia disinformation collusion hoax, all of it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Now we come to January 6. The reality is, we know that there were federal law enforcement agents in that field. We don&#8217;t know how many.&#8221;
The two proceeded to battle it out over the topic for the next several minutes.
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Too bad for CNN, we’ll take the TRUTH on Jan. 6 mainstream. There is clear evidence that there was at the very least entrapment of peaceful protestors, similar to the fake Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot &amp; countless other cases. The FBI won’t admit how many undercover officers… <a href="https://t.co/SBuc6nnymg">pic.twitter.com/SBuc6nnymg</a>
&mdash; Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1735126791142904074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Ramaswamy Battles CNN Over Whether January 6 Riot Was An ‘Inside Job’

Ramaswamy Battles CNN Over Whether January 6 Riot Was An 'Inside Job'

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As Republican presidential candidates make moves and gain endorsements in Iowa and New Hampshire before the first ballots are cast next month, one stark reality remains for the trailing GOP hopefuls: Donald Trump’s massive polling lead in both states.
In Iowa — a state seen as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ best shot to pull off an early upset — Trump’s lead has grown larger from a week ago as the former president now posts a 30-point polling advantage in the state, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/ia/2024_iowa_republican_presidential_caucus-8164.html">RealClearPolitics</a> average. Trump’s lead is slightly smaller in New Hampshire, where he is ahead of the second-place former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley by 25 points.
Haley won a major <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-hampshire-governor-sununu-endorses-nikki-haley-for-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsement</a> in New Hampshire Tuesday night when Republican Governor Chris Sununu publically announced his support for the former South Carolina governor at a campaign event in Manchester. Sununu, a strong Trump critic, endorsed Haley after spending time with both <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/10/24/desantis-sununu-new-hampshire/71304845007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeSantis</a> and former New Jersey Governor <a href="https://nhjournal.com/christie-campaigns-with-sununu-but-talks-about-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Christie</a> on the campaign trail in the first primary state. 
Sununu’s endorsement was vital for Haley’s campaign after her rival DeSantis secured the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iowa-governor-reynolds-endorses-desantis-for-president-hes-the-person-we-need-leading-this-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsement</a> of Iowa Republican Governor Kim Reynolds last month. 
Even with the endorsements, DeSantis and Haley will need to cover a lot of ground in the next month to be competitive with the former president. The most recent <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/ia/2024_iowa_republican_presidential_caucus-8164.html">Iowa</a> poll from NBC News and the Des Moines Register gave Trump a majority of the support in the Hawkeye State at 51% to DeSantis’ 19% and Haley’s 16%. Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy (5%), Christie (3.7%), and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (1%) trailed at the bottom of the pack in the Iowa poll. A Trafalgar Group poll of Iowa conducted at the beginning of the month put Trump’s support at 45%, leading DeSantis who came in at 22%, and Haley at 19%. 
In the latest <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/nh/2024_new_hampshire_republican_presidential_primary-7396.html">New Hampshire</a> poll conducted over the weekend by the Trafalgar Group, Trump sits at 45%, Haley comes in second at 18%, Christie comes in third at 14%, DeSantis sits in fourth at 11%, and Ramaswamy posts 10%. 
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Trump’s good polling also flows into a hypothetical rematch with President Joe Biden. Trump leads the president by 2.3 percentage points in the RCP average as of Wednesday afternoon. In <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general-election-trump-vs-biden-7383.html#polls">dozens of national polls</a> on the 2024 general election conducted since the beginning of November, Trump has topped most of them, posting as big as six-point advantages over Biden in some polls.

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