How did the Iowa result change the Republican primary?
The notion that another Republican could overtake Trump looks far-fetched
Donald Trump dominated public-opinion polling before the Republican presidential primary in 2023. Yet his rivals could reasonably argue that the party faithful still had not cast any votes, and the actual results might reveal a greater appetite for an alternative than surveys suggested. Mr Trump’s decisive victory in the Iowa caucus on January 15th seems to have put an end to that hopeful theory.
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This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Hope springs ephemeral”
United States January 20th 2024
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