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US presidential election: Trump invincible? Lessons from his victory in the Iowa Republican primary

A clear victory that sets the tone. Donald Trump won the early Republican primary in Iowa on Monday night with 51% of the vote, according to near-final results. The 77-year-old tycoon, who has been indicted four times, leaves his main rivals Ron DeSantis (21%) and Nikki Haley (19%) far behind. The result itself is a record: not a single Republican candidate won the Iowa caucuses with a margin of 30 points, according to American media and Reuters.

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“This is a success on all fronts,” notes Parisian Jean-Eric Branagh, a lecturer at Panthéon-Assas University in Paris. Donald Trump’s victory was not in doubt, as opinion polls gave him the favorite and this is a state that is very favorable to him. “The challenge for Donald Trump was to emerge as both the challenger and the outgoing president, we had to knock out the match. He did a great job,” analyzes this specialist from the USA.

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Source: Le Parisien

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