Trump wins the Iowa Republican caucuses, the first date of the US primary elections

The former president assures that he feels "honored" and "reinforced", and asks to "recover the country"

DeSantis takes second place and complains about the campaign launched against him

Former United States President Donald Trump won the Iowa Republican caucuses this Monday with 51.1 percent of the votes of citizens linked to the Republican Party, according to US media projections corresponding to 94 percent of the vote.

Thus, Trump has achieved victory in all counties except one and has won 20 delegates (with 55,432 votes), a figure much higher than that of the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, with eight delegates (23,054 votes, 21 .2 percent), and the former US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, with seven other delegates and the victory in Johnson County (20,687 votes, 19 percent), as reported by the CNN television network .

The former president has assured that he feels "reinforced" and "enormously honored" by the results, and has once again stated that his objective is to "Make America Great Again", his campaign slogan in English. just as "he did in his mandate."

"I feel great. I feel very honored (...). We have to take back our country, (...) it has been through a lot of bad things in the last three years and continues to go through bad things," Trump declared in a exclusive interview with the Fox News network.

DeSantis has criticized the campaign against him, and has thanked voters for their support in giving him second place; Even so, he has regretted that "the Iowa ticket has been taken away from them."

Haley has presented herself as a "renewing" option and has attacked the "advanced age" of Trump and the current president, Joe Biden, whose policies "have deepened the American debt" and who have also failed in their vision of the country's future. .

For his part, the Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced his departure from the presidential race after tonight's results (three delegates and 8,221 votes, which is 7.7 percent) and immediately showed his support for Trump. The remaining candidate, Asa Hutchinson, who has obtained 190 votes (0.2 percent), has not made a statement at the moment.

The president of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, a recognized Trump ally, has congratulated the former president on his victory in Iowa, and has praised voters for the harsh weather conditions in which they had to choose the Party's candidate. Republican.

In addition, he has criticized the economic and border policies of the current president, Joe Biden, and has expressed that the country will improve with Trump, whose eventual victory in the presidential elections "will make the White House and Congress work together to build the wall and to end Biden's border crisis, reduce inflation, restore the growing economy and rebuild the military."

"His decisive and historic victory tonight should mobilize our party to close ranks so we can achieve victory in November," Johnson said in a statement.

A number of pro-Trump Republicans, such as Florida Senator Matt Gaetz, Georgia Senator Marjorie Taylor Greene and Texas Senator Ronny Jackson, have called on DeSantis and Haley to withdraw from the primary, considering that the magnate's victory in Iowa "has finished with the race."

"This has been real. (...) This race is over. Donald Trump has consolidated the Republican Party. Ron DeSantis was getting his mail here. As if he had moved here. What is your argument for continuing this campaign?" Gaetz told CNN.

The first appointment of the US primary calendar began this Monday with the forecast that Trump would win on a day marked by a "historic" cold of 20 degrees below zero, which has left intense frosts.

The former president himself had noted in the preview that he expected to have "a tremendous night" and had highlighted that "he has never seen spirit like the one there is now throughout the country, in Iowa."

The calendar for the nomination of the Republican Party candidate includes primaries with traditional ballot box voting, but also caucuses, in which citizens linked to a certain party debate and choose their favorites, in some cases by show of hands and without the need for ballots.

In any case, the election is not direct, whether through primaries or caucuses, what citizens are deciding is the composition of the delegation of said state in the national conventions, where the proclamation of the person who will represent will be formally made. to training in the general elections - this year they will take place on November 5 -.

The Republican Party will hold its convention between July 15 and 18 in Milwaukee (Wisconsin), while the Democrats will meet from August 19 to 22 in Chicago (Illinois).