Despite former President Donald Trump‘s massive victory in the Iowa caucuses over Nikki Haley, his campaign reaped the repercussions of the former U.N. ambassador winning only one of Iowa‘s 99 counties by the closest margin possible.
Trump swept the first contest on the 2024 GOP primary calendar with 51% of the vote, but Haley won Johnson County, the bluest area in Iowa, by a single vote. Still, Trump’s 30-point victory was a record-setting win. But celebrations were not in order for everyone on Trump’s campaign.
Trump’s regional political director, who oversaw operations in Johnson County, was not given a seat on the campaign’s private plane on caucus night back to New York, according to the New York Times. Two people familiar with the situation told the outlet that the next morning, she was told by her supervisor that her contract with the Trump campaign had come to an end.
Haley received 1,271 votes in Johnson County to Trump’s 1,270. Data from August 2023 by the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office shows 38,744 registered Democrats in the county, compared to 13,464 Republicans. The Washington Examiner reached out to the Johnson County Auditor’s Office to ask for the latest numbers and how many people registered to vote specifically for the caucus.
After finishing behind Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in Iowa, Haley called the GOP primary a “two-person race.”
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“When you look at how we’re doing in New Hampshire, in South Carolina, and beyond, I can safely say tonight Iowa made this Republican primary a two-person race,” Haley said on Jan. 8.
DeSantis suspended his presidential campaign before the New Hampshire primary, which Trump won on Tuesday, building further on his momentum to become the Republican presidential nominee.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Trump’s campaign for comment.
