Joe Biden says Trump’s landslide victory in Iowa makes him the ‘clear frontrunner’ for the Republican party and it’s ‘me versus extreme MAGA Republicans’
- “It looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He is the clear frontrunner on the other side right now,” Biden wrote on social media after the Iowa caucuses
- He has focused his time on the campaign trail and criticizing Trump
- Experts say Trump could have the Republican nomination sewn up by March
President Joe Biden said Donald Trump is the “clear frontrunner” for the Republican nomination with his victory in the Iowa caucus, arguing the 2024 contest will be “me versus MAGA Republicans.”
“It looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He is the clear frontrunner on the other side at the moment. But the point is, this election was always going to be you and me versus extreme MAGA Republicans. It was true yesterday and it will be true tomorrow,” Biden wrote on his social media accounts.
He ended his observation with a plea for donations for his re-election bid. Trump, meanwhile, used his victory on Monday evening to call on the Republican Party to rally behind him so he can take back “the country” from Biden.
Trump won the Iowa caucuses by a record 30 points. He finished with 51 percent of the vote, well ahead of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis with 21 percent, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley with 19 percent and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy with 8 percent, who dropped out of the race Monday night.
President Joe Biden called Donald Trump the ‘clear frontrunner’ for the Republican nomination after the former president won the Iowa caucuses
Biden, meanwhile, told the Rev. Al Sharpton that he is running for a second term because Trump is the “most anti-democratic” president in “American history.”
He also criticized the former president for wanting “revenge on people.”
‘The things Trump says. Trump says things that are not clear,” Biden said in an interview that aired on Sharpton’s radio program on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
“He is the most anti-democratic president – with a small ‘d’ – in American history. The things he says. And he means them. He talks about wanting to get revenge on people,” Biden added. “It’s just outrageous stuff.”
Biden’s interview aired on the same day that Iowa voters headed to caucus locations for the first contest of the Republican presidential nominating contest.
And the president has faced criticism for his decision to run for another four years, with critics citing poor approval ratings and concerns about his age. At 81, Biden would be 86 at the end of a second term. Trump, at 77, has not faced the same criticism as his age.
Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses by a record 30 points
As of 2 a.m., Trump had more than 56 percent of the vote, while Haley and DeSantis finished in second place
Some experts are already predicting that Trump could finally clinch the Republican presidential nomination by March, which would be one of the first starts to a general election campaign.
Trump leads Biden by one point Polling average from RealClearPolitics of the 2024 presidential elections.
And a CBS News/YouGov poll on Monday showed Trump, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis each beating Biden in a head-to-head matchup in the 2024 general election.
While Trump is leading in the Republican party primaries, Haley fared best against Biden. Haley had an eight-point lead over Biden — 53 percent support to 45 percent, showing strong support from moderates and independents.
Former President Donald Trump with his sons Eric (left) and Don Jr (right) after his victory in Iowa
Biden’s focus on the campaign trail was on Trump. He has made defending democracy the centerpiece of his re-election campaign and has repeatedly said Trump threatens the principles on which the country was founded.
After Monday night’s big win in Iowa, Trump quickly looked ahead, saying the “big night will be in November when we take back our country” in the general election.