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Centrists: It's not all Republicans that support extremist candidates, there's still lots of non-extremists in the party!
Iowa caucus: Trump 51.0% DeSantis 21.2% Haley 19.1% Ramaswamy 7.7%
Leaving 1.0% or less that don't support an extremist candidate
Something like 14% of Iowan voters actually turned out. So 51% of that. It's still not ideal of course ๐คท
I don't think the Iowa caucuses are like normal voting. It's more like an event:
https://youtu.be/wP3d5sG-QM8
I don't think a single person under 40 was in that room, so these numbers and results track.