THE Donald Trump is taking place today election campaign in the state of Iowahaving scheduled two rallies exactly three years after his supporters stormed the Capitol, an event that still divides American voters.

In this state in the US Midwest, the primaries that will determine the Republican candidate for the presidential election in November begin on January 15.

Trump, who wants to return to the White House in November despite the four pending court cases against him, will find himself in eight days in front of the voters’ judgment for the first time since he left the US presidency.

Without saying a word about the attack on the Capitol by his supporters on January 6, 2021, the billionaire businessman arrived yesterday Friday “in the great state of Iowa”, where he will hold a campaign rally today at 13:00 (local time, 20:00 Greece) in Newton, near the capital Des Moines, and then to a school in Clinton, near the Illinois border.

From the city of Sioux Center yesterday, Trump accused US President Joe Biden, “corrupt Joe” as he calls him, of “fueling the fears” of Americans with his “deplorable campaign rally” in Pennsylvania, where the 81-year-old Democrat compared the rhetoric of his 77-year-old Republican opponent with that of “Nazi Germany”.

“The most important thing is to vote”

“In ten days, the people of this state will cast the most important vote of their lives,” Trump said, estimating that the stakes of this year’s election are even more important than those of 2016.

“You have to go vote because (this vote) sets the tone. It sets the tone, frankly, for November as well,” he estimated.

Despite his legal adventures, polls give Trump 60% of the Republican vote, over his two main rivals: Nikki Haley and Ron DeSandis. An unprecedented lead.

Yesterday Trump lashed out at them, calling them “establishment pawns” and claiming they would “sell out” voters.

“political violence”

The unprecedented attack on the Capitol three years ago remains a deeply divisive issue in the US: a quarter of Americans and 44% of Trump supporters believe the federal police (FBI) instigated the attack, according to a Washington Post poll and of the University of Maryland published this week.

“Trump and his MAGA supporters (Make America Great Again, the Republican slogan) not only embrace political violence, but laugh at it,” Biden complained during his speech yesterday.

On March 4, the trial begins in Washington in which Trump is accused of exerting pressure to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.

A day later, primary elections will be held in a number of states, including Texas, California, Colorado and Maine. The last two states have excluded Trump from the Republican ballot.