Trump's Iowa landslide is great news for Joe Biden: analysts
January 16, 2024
Donald Trump easily won the Iowa Republican caucus, and that could be great news for President Joe Biden.
Polling has shown that most undecided voters remain unsure if Trump would be the GOP nominee, but the former president's overwhelming win in the first primary could snap this year's race into focus as a rematch of the 2020 election — and help Biden stop his slide in approval ratings, reported The Messenger.
“The stronger Trump is, the better off Biden is,” said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon.
Both candidates are unpopular, but Biden's top advisers believe that voters will change their minds once they see the alternative is four more years of Trump.
“For those of us who’ve been paying attention, it’s been obvious for a long time that Trump will be the nominee — barring prison,” said Democratic strategist Christy Setzer. “But normal people won’t tune in for another couple of months — until Super Tuesday when Trump wraps up the nomination while on trial for federal election crimes."
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That split screen should further aid Biden, political strategists believe, and Biden has been leaning into that line of attack in his campaign speeches.
“Let's be clear about the 2020 election: Trump exhausted every legal avenue available to him to overturn the election — every one,” Biden said in a recent speech. “But the legal path just took Trump back to the truth: That I’d won the election and he was a loser.”