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'He's too old': Internet roasts Trump for claiming he won the Iowa Caucus 'twice'

Trump's rewriting his winning record.

If you took it from the mouth of babes, former President Donald Trump is undefeated as a politician in Iowa.

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Don Trump Jr. doesn't want 'morons' around him if he runs for office in 2028

Donald Trump Jr. is leaving open the door to running for office in 2028.

During a "Trump Country" campaign event in Ankney ahead of Iowa's caucuses on Monday, the former president's son was asked about his plans for running in 2028.

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Donald Trump Jr. event clears out after he's more than two hours late

Fewer than two rows of people were left in Ankeny, Iowa on Monday when Donald Trump Jr. was more than two hours late for his own event.

Forbes reporter Sarah Müller posted a photo of the empty rows of chairs, explaining that at 2 p.m. the room was packed with people. Iowa caucus voters evidently didn't want to wait around, knowing that they had to prepare for the caucus event.

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ESPN analyst references MLK Jr. speech — and claims he’s been ‘canceled’ by both parties

Pat McAfee on Monday referenced an iconic Martin Luther King Jr. speech, then contended he’s been “canceled” by both political parties amid his talk show’s recent controversies. The polarizing ESPN host began the latest episode of “The Pat McAfee Show” by noting it was Martin Luther King Jr. Day before seemingly impersonating the civil rights leader giving his “I Have a Dream” speech. “He had a dream, and I think LANK was one of the closest we have had to potentially that dream coming to fruition,” McAfee said, appearing to refer to a viral segment on ESPN’s “College Gameday.” “So let’s realiz...

The church has 'sold out' to Trump: Iowa evangelical voter

Former President Donald Trump has corrupted evangelical churches with his politics, one religious voter in Iowa told MSNBC's Priscilla Thompson on Monday.

This comes after a number of evangelical leaders themselves have expressed reservations with Trump, and have even turned on each other over the issue.

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'DeSantis is dead after tonight': campaign expert predicts post-Iowa Caucus withdrawal

Campaign experts are predicting that Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign won't survive the Iowa Caucus Monday night.

David Plouffe, campaign manager for former President Barack Obama, and Michael Steele, a former Republican Party chair, both appeared on MSNBC to foretell the end of the Florida Republican's race.

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Trump co-defendant Trevian Kutti vows to persuade quitting lawyer to take her back

She's lawyerless and cash-strapped — but hopes to fix that.

Trevian Kutti, a co-defendant in the sprawling racketeering case which saw Trump and 18 other defendants charged for attempting to interfere with the 2020 election results — went before a Georgia judge to explain how she's hoping to find a way to pay for her ex-attorney so she can bring him back, according to Law & Crime.

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MTG's Iowa caucus outfit ridiculed for similarity to Star Wars monster

In a caucus far, far away, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene donned a big, white furry costume — and the X empire struck back.

"Snow is covering the ground in below ZERO temperatures," Greene told her viewers outside a Trump 2024 calling center in Iowa. "Tonight’s win will be historic for President Trump and MAGA!"

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Trump loses another 2 lawyers as quitting attorney takes colleagues with him: report

Donald Trump has lost three lawyers in just one day as Joseph Tacopina's withdrawal from representing him meant another two attorneys from his firm also dropped out of the former president's defense, Newsweek reported.

Tacopina, a key lawyer who was representing Trump in his New York hush money case and the appeal of last year's ruling in the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial, withdrew his firm's services Monday, just two months before the criminal case was set to begin.

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'It's just too cold': Trump HQ tells Fox News Iowa supporters are staying home

Donald Trump's campaign headquarters in Iowa told Fox News correspondent Grady Trimble they are struggling to turn out some voters because of the cold weather.

"So we're outside of the Trump campaign's HQ," Trimble told Fox News host Martha MacCallum. "Inside, the volunteers have been working the lines trying to drum up support for the former president, but I can tell you, Martha, from the volunteers I've talked to, they did hear from people who said I'd love to caucus for the former president, but it's just too cold."

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Joe Manchin vows to meet Biden and use No Labels threat to force policy shift to center

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who for months has been teasing a possible third-party presidential run, told supporters at a private gathering that he plans to meet with President Joe Biden to get him to move his policies and positions more to what he sees as the “center.”

Manchin, who last year announced he will not run for re-election to the U.S. Senate, has also suggested he might leave the Democratic Party to become an independent. The West Virginia senator “spoke at a private gathering last night” in Darien, Connecticut, and “said he plans to meet with” President Biden “in the coming days to try to move him ‘to the center,'” according to Fox News Business’ Charles Gasparino.

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Trump using Fani Willis allegations as weapon to 'try this case in public': Ex-prosecutor

Newly emerged allegations about Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hiring a pre-existing romantic partner to a special counsel position in the election conspiracy case against former President Donald Trump are unlikely to derail the case as a matter of procedural or technical merits, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner told MSNBC's Chris Jansing on Monday — but that doesn't mean Trump won't try to use it as a weapon to confuse and misdirect the public.

This comes as Willis has finally spoken publicly on the matter, defending prosecutor Nathan Wade's qualifications and professionalism but neither confirming nor denying any romantic involvement with him or addressing concerns that they profited from his appointment.

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'In what world?' CNN host destroys North Dakota governor for endorsement of Donald Trump

A North Dakota Republican struggled to explain why he'd suddenly thrown his support behind Donald Trump’s presidential campaign Monday.

“It's a binary choice,” Gov. Doug Burgum told Phil Mattingly. “President Trump is going to win the Republican nomination.”

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