Trump Dominates in Iowa

TIME

Donald Trump was the runaway winner of the first contest in the 2024 GOP primary, notching the biggest victory ever in the contested Iowa caucuses.

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00:00 ♪ That I'm proud to be an American ♪

00:03 ♪ Where at least I know I'm free ♪

00:06 (applause)

00:08 (chanting)

00:16 Well, I want to thank everybody.

00:18 This has been some period of time.

00:19 And most importantly, we want to thank the great

00:23 people of Iowa.

00:24 Thank you.

00:25 We love you all.

00:26 (applause)

00:27 What a turnout.

00:28 What a crowd.

00:29 I want to congratulate Ron and Nikki for having a

00:34 good -- a good time together.

00:36 We're all having a good time together.

00:37 (laughter)

00:39 And I think they both actually did very well.

00:42 I really do.

00:42 I think they both did very well.

00:43 We don't even know what the outcome of second place is.

00:47 And I see Gary Lake.

00:50 Congratulations, Gary.

00:51 Very good.

00:52 (applause)

00:53 I spotted her, I have to announce, because she's terrific.

00:55 She's going to be a senator -- a great senator, I

00:58 predict, right?

00:59 You're going to be a great senator.

01:01 And I also want to congratulate Vivek because

01:07 he did a hell of a job.

01:08 He came from zero, and he's got a big percent --

01:13 probably 8 percent, almost 8 percent.

01:15 And that's an amazing job.

01:17 They all did.

01:18 They're all very smart -- very smart people, very

01:20 capable people.

01:22 And we're going to have to deport -- we're going to

01:24 have to have a deportation level that we haven't

01:28 seen in this country for a long time, since Dwight

01:30 Eisenhower, actually.

01:32 (applause)

01:34 So I don't want to be overly rough on the

01:37 President, but I have to say that he is the worst

01:42 President that we've had in the history of our

01:44 country.

01:45 (applause)

01:45 He's destroying our country.

01:47 And, you know, my wife attended the funeral two

01:53 months ago of Rosalynn Carter, and it was

01:57 beautiful.

01:58 And Jimmy Carter was there, and I thought to

02:00 myself, "Jimmy Carter is happy now because he will

02:04 go down as being a brilliant President by

02:08 comparison to Joe Biden."

02:10 He'll be a brilliant President.

02:11 It's going to be -- he's going to be known as

02:13 "brilliant" by comparison.

02:16 So it's now off to New Hampshire, a great place.

02:19 We won it last time, and we won it both times.

02:23 And we love it.

02:24 The people are great.

02:25 But, you know, the truth is, the people in our

02:27 country are great.

02:28 They're all great.

02:29 We love Iowa, but they're all great.

02:31 (applause)

02:33 They only want to see one thing.

02:36 They want our country to come back.

02:39 They're embarrassed by what's going on.

02:41 Our country is laughed at.

02:42 All over the world, they're laughing at us.

02:45 And they want our country to come back.

02:48 They want America -- you know, they want us to be

02:50 great again.

02:51 It's a very simple -- MAGA, Make America Great

02:54 Again, and America First.

02:58 America First is a very important part of MAGA.

03:01 (applause)

03:01 So we're going to put America first.

03:06 We're going to make America great again.

03:11 Again, Iowa, we love you.

03:13 You are going to -- oh, you just go out and buy

03:16 larger tractors in Moorland.

03:18 Don't worry about it.

03:20 And to all of the people standing behind me and all

03:24 of the people in this room, and so many great

03:26 politicians and great dignitaries and friends, I

03:30 just want to thank you all.

03:31 This is a very special night.

03:32 And this is the first because the big night is

03:37 going to be in November when we take back our

03:40 country, and truly, we do make our country great again.

03:44 Thank you very much, everybody.

03:46 Great honor.

03:46 Thank you very much.

03:47 Thank you.

03:48 Thank you very much.

03:50 (applause)

03:55 (upbeat music)

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