{"id":1515,"date":"2024-01-16T13:43:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/16\/biden-declares-trump-the-clear-front-runner-in-gop-race-after-iowa-trouncing\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:43:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:43:38","slug":"biden-declares-trump-the-clear-front-runner-in-gop-race-after-iowa-trouncing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/16\/biden-declares-trump-the-clear-front-runner-in-gop-race-after-iowa-trouncing\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden declares Trump the \u2018clear front runner\u2019 in GOP race after Iowa trouncing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden declared former President Trump the &#8220;clear front runner&#8221; in the GOP presidential race following Trump&#8217;s dominant victory in Iowa Monday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden was quick<\/a> to launch a fundraising push based on Trump&#8217;s win as well. He went on to attack &#8220;extreme MAGA Republicans&#8221; in a post on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He\u2019s the clear front runner on the other side at this point,&#8221; Biden wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But here\u2019s the thing: this election was always going to be you and me vs. extreme MAGA Republicans. It was true yesterday and it\u2019ll be true tomorrow,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/live-news\/iowa-caucus-election-results-gop-2024-presidential-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE FOR LIVE IOWA CAUCUS UPDATES FROM FOX NEWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden followed up the statement with a request for donations to his 2023 re-election campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/live-news\/iowa-caucus-election-results-gop-2024-presidential-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DONALD TRUMP, NIKKI HALEY, RON DESANTIS AND VIVEK RAMASWAMY FACE OFF AT IOWA CAUCUSES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump said he feels &#8220;invigorated&#8221; and &#8220;greatly honored&#8221; after winning the 2024 Iowa caucuses Monday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-says-he-is-honored-invigorated-after-winning-iowa-caucuses-make-america-great-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">telling Fox News Digital<\/a> that he feels &#8220;strong&#8221; for our country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It really is an honor that, minutes after, they\u2019ve announced I\u2019ve won \u2014 against very credible competition \u2014 great competition, actually,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;It is a tremendous thing and a tremendous feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/vivek-ramaswamy-ends-presidential-bid-following-iowa-caucuses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>VIVEK RAMASWAMY ENDS PRESIDENTIAL BID FOLLOWING IOWA CAUCUSES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to get our country back,&#8221; he told Fox News Digital. &#8220;Our country has gone through so many bad things over the last three years and it is continuing to go through bad things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Votes in Iowa are still being tallied, but Trump has clearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-quickly-secures-victory-iowa-others-battle-second-first-gop-presidential-nominating-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taken the lion&#8217;s share<\/a> of the vote, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis coming in a distant second, followed closely by former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News&#8217; Brooke Singman contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden declared former President Trump the &#8220;clear front runner&#8221; in the GOP presidential race following Trump&#8217;s dominant victory in Iowa Monday night. Biden was quick to launch a fundraising push based on Trump&#8217;s win as well. He went on to attack &#8220;extreme MAGA Republicans&#8221; in a post on X, formerly Twitter. &#8220;Looks like Donald &#8230; <a title=\"Biden declares Trump the \u2018clear front runner\u2019 in GOP race after Iowa trouncing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/16\/biden-declares-trump-the-clear-front-runner-in-gop-race-after-iowa-trouncing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Biden declares Trump the \u2018clear front runner\u2019 in GOP race after Iowa trouncing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}