Trump won in Iowa
Five Things that Have Been Learned in the Last Five Years (Up First Briefing: Trump Wins Iowa GOP Caucuses; Stay Prepared During Winter Outages)
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Everyone expected that the result would be what it was. Former President Donald Trump won in a landslide. So what is it that it all means? Here are five things that have been learned.
The Fake News: Trump Turned Iowans into a Biden +40 County and Flips to Nikki Haley by One Vote
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“After it was reported that President Trump won every county in Iowa tonight, Democrat shenanigans ensued and now it’s being reported that Johnson County in Iowa, which is a Biden +40 county, flipped to Nikki Haley by ONE VOTE,” Laura Loomer, a far-right activist who has been embraced by Trump, posted on X in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Despite the overwhelming scale of former president Donald Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucuses on Monday night, some of Trump’s most ardent supporters have already claimed that the vote was rigged because he lost one single county.
On Trump’s own platform Truth Social, Seth Keshel, a retired US army captain who has become a leading voice in the election denial movement in recent years, wrote: “Haley by one vote in Johnson County screws my prediction of 99/99 to Trump. Audit!”
On The Donald, users disagreed with Haley’s claim that Iowans made the presidential election a two-person race.
The deep state is believed to have been the cause of the one vote loss. To win by a single vote is too much of a show. “It looks like a ‘Fuck You’ from the Deep State.” Responses in the same thread urged Trump to call for a recount in order to “trigger” his opponents.
The Hall-Hall Campaign: Turning the Meddling Into Reality after the First Preliminary Election: Counting a False Claims
The Iowa Democratic party paid tens of thousands of voters to switch their party registration to Republican in order to caucus for Haley, says Joshua Hall who was once convicted of threatening to kill a Democratic congressman.
CBS reported that in at least some Johnson County precinct, election officials ran out of forms to allow people to switch parties on the evening of the election, despite no evidence that anyone was paid to vote.
As has been the case since the first false claims of a stolen election emerged in the wake of Trump’s loss in 2020, none of those claiming wrongdoing on Monday night provided any proof to back up their claims. With a long primary season now underway, those peddling lies about election integrity are just getting started.
