{"id":2150806,"date":"2024-01-16T17:06:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T22:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/extreme-winter-weather-causes-lowest-iowa-caucus-turnout-since-2000\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T17:06:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T22:06:43","slug":"extreme-winter-weather-causes-lowest-iowa-caucus-turnout-since-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/extreme-winter-weather-causes-lowest-iowa-caucus-turnout-since-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe winter leads to lowest Iowa caucus turnout since 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fextreme-winter-weather-causes-lowest-iowa-caucus-turnout-since-2000%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2150806&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Historic Victory in Iowa \u2064Caucuses<\/h2>\n<p>Despite bone-chilling temperatures and a record-low voter turnout,\u2062 former President\u200b Donald Trump \u2063emerged triumphant\u2063 in Monday&#8217;s Iowa caucuses.\u2062 With an \u2064impressive 51% \u2062of the \u200cvote, Trump left his \u200bRepublican\u2064 rivals, \u200cGov. Ron DeSantis and former Gov. Nikki \u200bHaley, in the \u200ddust with 21% and 19% \u200crespectively. The media wasted\u2064 no time in\u200d declaring Trump the\u2063 winner, even before some precincts had finished voting.<\/p>\n<h3>Unprecedented Turnout Despite the Odds<\/h3>\n<p>Despite weather\u200b warnings\u2064 and concerns about voter disinterest due \u2064to Trump&#8217;s commanding lead in the polls, Trump campaign \u200bcaucus\u200b captains reported higher-than-expected turnout at their precincts. Approximately 110,000 Republicans cast their votes in Monday&#8217;s caucuses, a significant drop from the 2016\u2064 contest, but still an\u2063 improvement from previous years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2016: 187,000 voters<\/li>\n<li>2024:\u2063 110,000\u200c voters<\/li>\n<li>2008: 118,000 voters<\/li>\n<li>2012: 122,000 voters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite the challenging weather conditions, \u200cTrump&#8217;s supporters \u200dbraved \u200cthe coldest caucus day in Iowa&#8217;s history, with\u2062 temperatures feeling like a bone-chilling minus-20 degrees Fahrenheit. The\u200c treacherous snowy roads only\u2064 added to the\u200d difficulty of reaching the caucus precincts safely.<\/p>\n<h3>A Call to Action<\/h3>\n<p>Recognizing the importance\u200d of voter \u200dparticipation, all the candidates\u2063 urged their supporters to find a safe way to make it \u2062to the caucuses. Trump himself emphasized the significance of showing\u200c up, stating, &#8220;The only way we\u200b are hurt&#8230; is if you stay home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the obstacles, Trump&#8217;s landslide victory in the Iowa caucuses will undoubtedly set the stage for\u2064 an exciting and highly anticipated \u20642024 election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite frigid weather and historically low turnout, Donald Trump triumphed in Iowa&#8217;s caucuses with a resounding 51% of the vote. Governor Ron DeSantis and ex-Governor Nikki Haley trailed far behind with 21% and 19% respectively. Trump&#8217;s commanding lead prompted media outlets to declare his victory early on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2656,"featured_media":2150807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2150807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}