If the caucus results and entrance polling are to be believed, the Republican electorate in 2024 belongs to President Donald Trump.
For starters, nearly two-thirds of caucus-goers surveyed said they believe President Joe Biden’s 2020 election was illegitimate.
President Trump won the Republican Party of Iowa’s Caucus on Jan. 15 with 51 percent of the vote. According to official results from the Iowa GOP, 110,298 votes were cast. The turnout was far below 2016’s Republican tally of more than 186,000, possibly affected this year by the bitterly cold weather.
According to January 2024 data from the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office, 18.5 percent of active registered Republican voters turned out for the caucus, or 5 percent of the state’s 2.2 million registered voters….
