Mills County Caucuses Mirror State Results
Some of the presidential campaign paraphernalia available at Monday night's caucuses.
Glenwood Ward 1 and Ward 3 caucus goers sign at Glenwood Community High School Monday night.
Mark Jensen voiced support Ron DeSantis at Monday's Glenwood Township Caucus.
Greg Stein gives a short speech in support of Nikki Haley at the Glenwood Township Caucus Monday, Jan. 15.
Republican Party caucus results in Mills County mirrored statewide results Monday night with former president Donald Trump claiming a decisive victory and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis edging Nikki Haley for second place.
Statewide, Trump captured 51 percent of the votes, followed by DeSantis with 21.2% and Haley with 19.1%. Vivek Ramaswamy, who announced after the caucuses that he was suspending his campaign, collected 7.7%. Ryan Binkley, Asa Hutchinson and Chris Christie, who had already ended his campaign before the caucuses, also received votes.
Turnout for the Iowa Caucuses was the lowest in a quarter century, with 110,000 Republican voters participating. State Republican Party leaders attributed subzero temperatures across the state Monday night for the lower-than-normal participation numbers.
Trump received 449 votes in Mills County (59%), followed by DeSantis and Haley with 154 (20.2%) and 126 (16.6%) respectively. Ramaswamy garnered 30 (3.9%) votes and Hutchinson received 2 (0.3%).
Trump won Fremont County with 164 votes (68.3%), while Haley was the runner-up with 36 (15%). DeSantis tallied 29 (12.1%) and Ramaswamy received 11 (4.6%).
Historically, the winner of the Iowa Republican Caucuses, when contested, has found it difficult to capture the party’s nomination and presidency, but polling has shown Trump is the clear front runner to receive his party’s nomination for a third time.
The last Republican to win a contested caucus in Iowa and go on to capture the GOP nomination and the White House was George W. Bush in 2000. Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee won contested Iowa Republican caucuses in 2016, 2012 and 2008 respectively, but none of the three would capture the GOP nomination.