In view of of the November presidential election took place in Iowa the first primaries for the Republican nomination, with Donald Trump winning a sweeping victory, gathering the 51.1% of the vote.

“Iowa primaries create new momentum”comments n Süddeutsche Zeitung. “And this is enough to stir the imagination and influence voters ahead of the next primary election. However, the majorities, whether within the party or for the presidential elections themselves, do not shift like that.” In any case, however, “Iowa showed that the Trump movement has enormous potential for mobilization, as well as a stable majority: Donald Trump has control of what used to be called the Republican Party.”

What is certain is how Trump has managed to “plant in people’s minds the image he himself has of America: a country in economic distress, at the mercy of the moods of international politics and under the greatest possible immigration pressure. A scene is thus created for the collapse of the good old America and the rise of a progressive-liberal cabal of well-wishers who sell out the country’s values ​​and mock the workers.” In fact, it is a dipole which will only intensify until the presidential elections in November. And in the end “the issue will not be whether Joe Biden is too old or his economic policy is one-sided. In the end the U.S. they will be asked to answer only one question: Do you want this Trump?’

Trump mobilizes his followers like no other

The financial review Handelsblatt estimates for its part that “Trump’s momentum from the Iowa caucuses will soon leave Republicans with no options. […] In 2016, before he was elected president, Trump lost there to Ted Cruz. Eight years later he won by a record percentage, which demonstrates that Trump has the power to mobilize the world like no other.” However, one more worrying conclusion can be drawn from this election result: “The usual measures and standards of politics do not apply in the case of Trump, who is trusted by 60% of Republican voters, even though is threatened with imprisonment.

De Sandys

Finally it’s almost irrelevant whether Haley and DeSandis will hold out a little longer by throwing a couple of million into the remaining primary states. Because everything revolves around Trump anyway, no one can get past him. Hence the issue it is not whether Trump will run for president, but who he will run with as a “running mate”that is, as a candidate for the Vice Presidency”, concludes HB.