{"id":2152795,"date":"2024-01-18T14:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T19:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-thinks-trumps-iowa-win-doesnt-mean-anything\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T14:32:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T19:32:46","slug":"biden-thinks-trumps-iowa-win-doesnt-mean-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-thinks-trumps-iowa-win-doesnt-mean-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden dismisses Trump&#8217;s Iowa victory as insignificant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fbiden-thinks-trumps-iowa-win-doesnt-mean-anything%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=2152795&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>President Biden Downplays Trump&#8217;s Iowa\u200b Caucus Win<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden made an effort to downplay the significance \u2064of former President\u2063 Donald Trump&#8217;s victory in the Iowa caucus on Monday. Despite Trump winning 51% of \u2062the votes, surpassing his\u200d challengers by a wide margin, Biden dismissed the results as inconsequential.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference before his departure to North Carolina, Biden responded to a question about the \u200dimpact of the \u200dIowa results on his own \u200creelection prospects. He emphasized, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think Iowa means anything. The president\u2062 got 50-some-thousand votes, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/6-7-million-covid-vaccines-given-in-u-s-with-70-of-available-doses-unused\/\" title=\"6.7 million COVID Vaccines Given in U.S. With 70% of Available Doses Unused\">lowest number<\/a> of votes\u200b anybody who&#8217;s \u200dwon got. This \u200didea that he&#8217;s going to run away, he can think anyway he wants. Let him make that judgment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Trump&#8217;s campaign tried to\u200c portray the results as a landslide victory, Biden correctly pointed out the relatively low number of total votes the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-on-pennsylvania-another-statistical-analysis-shows-roughly-300000-biden-votes-are-questionable\/\" title=\"More on Pennsylvania - Another Statistical Analysis Shows Roughly 300,000 Biden Votes Are Questionable\">president received<\/a>. \u200cThe state of\u200b Iowa was hit by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-issues-disaster-declaration-for-texas-amidst-severe-winter-weather\/\" title=\"Biden Issues Disaster Declaration For Texas Amidst Severe Winter Weather\">severe winter storms<\/a>, resulting in heavy snowfall and \u200bsignificantly reducing voter turnout at \u2064the caucuses.<\/p>\n<p>Only around 110,000 Republicans voted on Monday, a significant decline compared\u2063 to the 187,000 who participated in the\u2063 2016\u2063 GOP caucuses. In that election, Senator Ted Cruz emerged\u200c as\u2062 the\u200d winner with a more\u2062 than 3-point\u200d lead over his\u200c competitors.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of votes cast\u2063 in the 2024 Iowa caucuses marked \u2063the lowest Republican\u200c turnout in a nominating contest since 2000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read \u200bmore\u200d from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What were the factors contributing to the\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-senate-primary-runoff-narrows-a-crowded-gop-field\/\" title=\"Oklahoma Senate Primary Runoff Narrows A Crowded GOP Field\">lower voter turnout<\/a> in the 2024 Iowa caucuses compared to previous years<\/h2>\n<p><span>  President Biden recently downplayed former President Trump&#8217;s victory in the Iowa caucus,\u2062 dismissing it as\u200c inconsequential. Despite Trump winning with 51% of the votes, Biden\u200d emphasized the relatively\u200c low number of votes\u200d the former president received. He stated that Iowa&#8217;s results\u200b hold no\u200c significance\u200c and \u2063that Trump \u200ccan think\u200c however he wants about running in future elections.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s campaign attempted to present the results as a landslide victory, but\u2063 Biden highlighted \u200bthe fact that \u2062the\u200c total number of votes received was \u200drather low. The state of Iowa was grappling with severe winter storms, which led to heavy snowfall and \u2063significantly reduced voter turnout \u200bat \u200cthe caucuses.<\/p>\n<p>Compared \u200bto the \u200d187,000 Republicans who participated in the 2016 GOP caucuses, only\u2064 around 110,000 Republicans \u2062cast their votes on Monday. \u2062Senator Ted\u2064 Cruz emerged as the \u20622016 winner with \u200da more than 3-point \u200blead over his competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the 2024 Iowa \u2063caucuses saw the lowest Republican turnout in a nominating contest since 2000. President \u200bBiden&#8217;s remarks reflect his view \u200dthat the Iowa \u200dresults hold little relevance\u200c in shaping his own reelection prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Washington\u200b Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden downplayed former President Donald Trump&#8217;s victory in Iowa&#8217;s caucus, where he secured 51% of the votes. This win, which occurred in the first nominating contest of the 2024 cycle, surpassed competitors Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and former U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley by a significant margin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2152796,"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-2152795","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\/2152795","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\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2152796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}