Former President Donald Trump appealed to Iowa voters on Wednesday night as the state’s Jan. 15 caucus approaches, saying they should not allow his polling lead to deceive them.
“We’re way, way, way up, but you have to do me a favor: Just go out and vote,” Trump said at his rally in Coralville, Iowa. “We have to put big numbers, really big numbers. Sometimes, you know, you’re leading by so much. They say, ‘Oh, I think, let’s sit home and watch a movie.’ You know, ‘We’ll watch the results afterwards.’ We don’t want to do that. You gotta get out and vote.”
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Trump’s rally comes on the same day as the House of Representatives voted to authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
Earlier on Wednesday, the president’s son, Hunter Biden, also defied a subpoena to sit for a scheduled deposition before the House Oversight Committee. Instead, he held a press conference outside the Capitol and rebuffed the claims of House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH). This prompted Comer and Jordan to initiate the process of holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress.
In response to the day’s events, Trump said, “Did you see Hunter today? He went to the wrong place. He went to the Senate instead of the House. Everyone’s saying, ‘Where’s Hunter?’”
Trump blasted the Biden administration, promising to “restore law and order” once back in the White House. He also pointed to a “two-tier system of justice” and promised to overhaul the Department of Justice, restore border security, and “keep men out of women’s sports.”
The former president also touted his cognitive ability.
“I took a physical, passed it. I thought I had an obligation,” Trump told the crowd. “I took a cognitive and aced it. I said, ‘Which did I do better on? My physical or my cognitive?’ He said, ‘Actually, sir, your cognitive.’ And I wasn’t sure I [was] happy about that one. He said, ‘Your cognitive is incredible!’”
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Trump overwhelmingly leads his Republican counterparts for the party’s nomination, polling at 61.5%, according to FiveThirtyEight.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley trail Trump by nearly 50 points, with DeSantis polling at 12.1% and Haley polling at 11.3%.
