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Trump dominated Iowa’s most religious counties – analysis

Donald Trump’s weakest performance in the Iowa caucuses was in the parts of the Hawkeye State that more closely resemble the rest of the US, according to an analysis of last night’s results.

The former president dominated in Iowa’s most religious regions, winning 58% of the vote in the most religious counties compared with 54% in the least religious, the Washington Post reported.

Trump’s best gains in evangelical areas may be less predictive of success around the country than the results in Iowa’s bigger metropolitan areas, the report said.

Education also proved to be a particularly strong decider last night. Trump performed well with the state’s lower-income and less educated counties, while his worst results were Ames and Johnson County, home to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa.

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\n <li><p><strong>Donald Trump</strong> won 51% of the vote in Iowa, giving him the largest margin of victory in the history of the state’s Republican caucuses. <strong>Ron DeSantis</strong>, the Florida governor, secured a distant second-place finish with 21% of the vote, while <strong>Nikki Haley</strong>, the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador, trailed in third place with 19%.</p></li>\n <li><p>Even though she failed to capture second place, Haley boldly declared that the primary was now “a two-person race” between her and Trump. <a href=\”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jan/16/donald-trump-iowa-caucus-results-2024-election-latest-news-updates-ron-desantis-nikki-haley-republicans?page=with:block-65a67aa38f08d01c91c8df2e#block-65a67aa38f08d01c91c8df2e\”>She later put out a new campaign advert </a>attacking Trump and Biden, saying she is the “better choice” for America. She reportedly has already made her way to New Hampshire, which will hold the first-in-the-nation primary on 23 January.</p></li>\n <li><p>Jury selection is set to start Tuesday morning in E Jean Carroll’s Manhattan federal court <a href=\”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/14/donald-trump-return-court-e-jean-carroll-defamation-damages\”>defamation trial </a>against Trump.</p></li>\n <li><p>Belgium’s prime minister, <strong>Alexander De Croo</strong>, whose country holds the EU’s presidency, <a href=\”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jan/16/donald-trump-iowa-caucus-results-2024-election-latest-news-updates-ron-desantis-nikki-haley-republicans?page=with:block-65a6621d8f08a3aafbaac6da#block-65a6621d8f08a3aafbaac6da\”>has urged Europe</a> to become more self-reliant, given the possible return of Donald Trump to the White House. “If 2024 brings us ‘America First’ again, it will be more than ever Europe on its own,” De Croo was quoted by AFP as telling the European parliament. “We should not fear that prospect. 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This second lawsuit went on trial in April 2023 and jurors awarded her $5m, finding Trump liable of sexual abuse and defamation for the post-presidency comments.</p>”,”elementId”:”8ca23ed5-5292-4633-95b7-204396fd7baa”,”_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>This week’s trial will only weigh whether Trump’s denials while he was president constituted defamation which, in practical terms, means it will effectively boil down to damages. The judge overseeing this case, Lewis Kaplan, will not allow Trump’s team to re-litigate Carroll’s claims.</p>”,”elementId”:”5a69508e-8169-476a-9eff-798cf6dd0e5c”,”_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>You can read the full story from my colleague, <a href=\”https://www.theguardian.com/profile/victoria-bekiempis\”>Victoria Bekiempis</a>, here:</p>”,”elementId”:”edf78312-ea30-4b03-a1b4-b659032e1989″,”_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement”,”url”:”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/16/jury-selection-e-jean-carroll-defamation-trial-trump”,”text”:”Jury selection to begin in E Jean Carroll defamation trial against Trump”,”prefix”:”Related: 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Key events

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has responded to the announcement by Asa Hutchinson that he will suspend his bid for the White House.

DNC national press secretary Sarafina Chitika said:

This news comes as a shock to those of us who could’ve sworn he had already dropped out.

Nikki Haley’s latest comments come weeks after the Republican presidential candidate declined to specify that slavery was a case of the civil war.

Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, where the first shots of the north-south conflict were fired by Confederate soldiers in April 1861, was asked in late December about the reason for the war but didn’t mention slavery in her response.

Instead, she talked about the role of government, replying that it involved “basically how the government was going to run” and “the freedoms of what people could and couldn’t do”. Speaking at the town hall event in Berlin, New Hampshire, Haley added:

I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are. And we will always stand by the fact that I think the government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people.

The questioner said they were astonished she did not mention slavery. “In the year 2023, it’s astonishing to me that you answer that question without mentioning the word ‘slavery’,” the questioner responded, prompting a retort from Haley, who said:

What do you want me to say about slavery?

Nikki Haley declines to say US civil war was about slavery – video

America has ‘never been a racist country’, says Haley

Nikki Haley has claimed that the US has “never been a racist country”, just weeks after she sparked backlash by failing to specify that slavery was a cause of the civil war.

The Republican presidential candidate was asked to respond to comments by MSNBC host Joy Reid, who claimed Haley’s third-place finish in Monday night’s Iowa caucuses was largely due to her race and ethnicity. Reid said:

The elephant in the room – she’s still a brown lady that’s got to try to win in a party that is deeply anti-immigrant … I don’t see how she becomes the nominee of that party.

In an interview on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday, Haley was asked to respond to Reid’s comments. Reid “lives in a different America than I do”, the former US ambassador to the UN said, adding:

I am a brown girl that grew up in South Carolina who became the first female minority governor in history, who became a UN ambassador and is now running for president. If that’s not the American dream, I don’t know what is.

Asked if she believes the GOP is a “racist party”, Haley replied:

No. We’re not a racist country. We’ve never been a racist country.

“We’ve never been a racist country.”

— Nikki Haley rejects Joy Reid’s claim that Haley placed third in the Iowa caucuses because she is “a brown lady … in a party that is deeply anti-immigrant,” and rejects any claim that the GOP is a racist party pic.twitter.com/a3yRqK82em

— The Recount (@therecount) January 16, 2024

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Donald Trump’s legal team asked the judge in this second defamation civil trial brought by writer E Jean Carroll against him whether proceedings could be suspended this Thursday so that he can attend the funeral of his mother-in-law.

Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the request, in court today, a few days after he had refused to push the trial back by a week to accommodate Trump’s wish to go the funeral of Amalija Knavs, the mother of the former US president’s wife, Melania Trump.

Knavs died earlier this month.

“I am not stopping him from being there,” the judge said, referring to the funeral, the Associated Press reports.

Trump lawyer Alina Habba responded: “No, you’re stopping him from being here.”

Habba told the judge that Trump plans to testify. Kaplan said the only accommodation he would make is that Trump can testify on Monday, even if the trial is otherwise finished by Thursday.

Trump sat attentively, glaring and scowling at times, as about six-dozen prospective jurors filed into the courtroom and spent more than an hour responding to questions posed by the judge covering everything from their prior involvement with the judicial system to their political beliefs, AP further writes.

E. Jean Carroll arrives at Federal court for her second Civil Defamation Trial against former president Donald J. Trump in New York, New York, USA, 16 January 2024. The jury in the first case found Trump sexually abused Carroll and she was awarded five million dollars.
E. Jean Carroll arrives at Federal court for her second Civil Defamation Trial against former president Donald J. Trump in New York, New York, USA, 16 January 2024. The jury in the first case found Trump sexually abused Carroll and she was awarded five million dollars. Photograph: Peter Foley/EPA

Trump fumes in court at trial over libel of E Jean Carroll

Joanna Walters

Joanna Walters

Donald Trump shook his head in disgust Tuesday as the judge in his New York defamation trial told prospective jurors that another jury had already decided the former president sexually abused columnist E Jean Carroll in the 1990s, the Associated Press reports.

Both Carroll and Trump are in court in New York today. Jury selection has just been completed, and opening arguments are expected this afternoon. The trial amounts to the penalty phase of a civil defamation lawsuit stemming from Carroll’s actions against Trump who was found liable by a previous jury of sexually attacking her in a department store dressing room many years ago.

The AP further reports:

Prospective jurors were told the trial was likely to last three to five days. Opening statements come next. Trump did not attend the previous trial in the case last May, when a jury found he had sexually abused Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages. In light of that verdict, Judge Lewis Kaplan told prospective jurors the trial beginning Tuesday would focus only on how much money, if any, Trump must pay Carroll for comments he made about her while president in 2019.

For purposes of the new trial, it had already been determined that Trump “did sexually assault Ms. Carroll,” Kaplan said, prompting Trump to shake his head from side to side. The ex-president was sitting at the defense table, flanked by his lawyers, about a dozen feet from Carroll and her legal team. They didn’t appear to speak or make eye contact.

As the day began, Kaplan rejected the defense’s request to suspended the trial on Thursday so Trump could attend his mother-in-law’s funeral — part of a combative exchange in which Trump’s lawyers accused the judge of thwarting their defense with pretrial evidence rulings they contend were favorable to Carroll.

In this courtroom sketch, prospective jurors file into the courtroom as Donald Trump, third left, stands surrounded by his defense team. Alina Habba, fourth left, Trump’s lead defense attorney, stands beside him. E. Jean Carroll, background second from right, stands with her attorney Roberta Kaplan, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in New York.
In this courtroom sketch, prospective jurors file into the courtroom as Donald Trump, third left, stands surrounded by his defense team. Alina Habba, fourth left, Trump’s lead defense attorney, stands beside him. E. Jean Carroll, background second from right, stands with her attorney Roberta Kaplan, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in New York. Photograph: Elizabeth Williams/AP

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Joanna Walters

Joanna Walters

Joe Biden has invited congressional leaders, key committee leaders and ranking members to the White House tomorrow to discuss the supplemental funding bill relating to funds to support Ukraine and Israel, relating to US national security issues, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.

The White House press briefing has just begun and Jean-Pierre confirmed the meeting, which was first reported by Punchbowl News earlier.

Reporters are asking now if a deal might be closer on a spending agreement.

Legislation has been stalled since early December after Senate Republicans blocked a funding bill that included aid for Ukraine and Israel.

That vote came one day after Senate Democrats formally unveiled the $111bn supplemental security bill, reflecting the funding request that Joe Biden issued in October to provide assistance to the US’s allies abroad, the Guardian reported at the time.

Workers shoveling snow near the US Capitol in Washington, DC, earlier today.
Workers shoveling snow near the US Capitol in Washington, DC, earlier today. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA

The White House media briefing is due to begin shortly, with press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, accompanied by national security spokesman John Kirby. Kirby tends to focus on international security issues involving the Biden administration.

It’s an audio only briefing today.

Joe Biden is at the White House. The US president spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz earlier, with the White House saying the two discussed Ukraine and the ongoing events in the Middle East. More details are expected later.

The White House on snowy Tuesday, earlier today.
The White House on snowy Tuesday, earlier today. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

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Summary of the day so far

  • Donald Trump has won an overwhelming victory in the US’s first election contest of 2024, easily fending off a winnowed field of Republicans in the Iowa caucuses. The former president won 51% of the vote in Iowa, a 30-point lead over Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor. Nikki Haley, a former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador, trailed in third place with 19%.

  • Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucuses was heralded as an early beginning to the battle for the White House itself. Using an acronym for Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America great again”, Joe Biden told followers: “Here’s the thing: this election was always going to be you and me versus extreme Maga Republicans. It was true yesterday and it’ll be true tomorrow.”

  • Nikki Haley has said she will not appear on the debate stage without Donald Trump or Joe Biden. Ron DeSantis has confirmed he will be attending this week’s GOP presidential debates in New Hampshire. Trump has not participated in any of the Republican primary debates so far.

  • E Jean Carroll and Donald Trump faced each other in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday in her defamation trial against the ex-president. The trial started with jury selection. Before selection started, Trump’s lead lawyer on this case, Alina Habba, told the judge that his team intends to call him as a witness.

  • The former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, a stalwart conservative willing to sharply criticize Donald Trump, has suspended his beleaguered bid for the White House the day after he came in sixth place in Monday’s Iowa caucuses.

  • Donald Trump is leading Joe Biden by eight percentage points among registered voters in Georgia, according to a new poll. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll also showed nearly 20% of voters weren’t ready to support either candidate.

  • The Senate will vote on a resolution that would freeze military aid to Israel unless the Biden administration looks into potential human rights abuses in Gaza. The measure, forced to the floor by Senator Bernie Sanders, has little chance of passing given the overwhelming support for security assistance to Israel in Congress.

Trump dominated Iowa’s most religious counties – analysis

Donald Trump’s weakest performance in the Iowa caucuses was in the parts of the Hawkeye State that more closely resemble the rest of the US, according to an analysis of last night’s results.

The former president dominated in Iowa’s most religious regions, winning 58% of the vote in the most religious counties compared with 54% in the least religious, the Washington Post reported.

Trump’s best gains in evangelical areas may be less predictive of success around the country than the results in Iowa’s bigger metropolitan areas, the report said.

Education also proved to be a particularly strong decider last night. Trump performed well with the state’s lower-income and less educated counties, while his worst results were Ames and Johnson County, home to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa.

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Donald Trump is leading Joe Biden by eight percentage points among registered voters in Georgia, according to a new poll.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Tuesday morning shows 45% of Georgia voters would support Trump, compared to 37% who would support Biden in a hypothetical rematch. The poll also showed nearly 20% of voters weren’t ready to support either candidate.

Biden is hurt by soft support among many Democratic and independent voters who were key to his 2020 victory over Trump in Georgia, including 10% of Black voters who said they do not plan to vote at all, the poll showed.





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