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Iowa Caucuses

Blame Christians for Trump? Not so fast: Seven of ten in a theologically Reformed area did not vote for him

Marvin Olasky   |  January 18, 2024

Iowa caucus results suggest a different story than today’s standard one about Christians leading the way in support of Trump.

Mitt Romney: Some Trump voters are “are out of touch with reality”

John Fea   |  January 18, 2024

Earlier this week I received a query from a journalist who covers the United States for a conservative Protestant daily newspaper in the Netherlands affiliated with the Calvinist Reformed Political Party. (Follow the links to the paper and its party. […]

91 felony indictments later and Trump’s evangelical support is growing

John Fea   |  January 16, 2024

As I noted this morning, evangelicals carried Trump to his Iowa win last night. We now know that Trump did much better with Iowa evangelicals this time around. Here is The New York Times: Evangelical Christian voters moved to Trump […]

Douthat: “It’s absurd that there was no unified opposition” to Trump in Iowa

John Fea   |  January 16, 2024

Earlier today I watched Dana Bash of CNN interview GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley at a New Hampshire diner. I’ll let David Goldiner of the New York Daily News describe what I saw: Nikki Haley feigned ignorance about former President […]

Trump wins Iowa with support of evangelicals

John Fea   |  January 16, 2024

As expected, it was a big night for Donald Trump. He won just over half of the 110,000 votes cast in Iowa. Due to the weather, the turnout was very low. Ron DeSantis finished second (21.2%) and Nikki Haley was […]

A very busy Martin Luther King Jr. Day

John Fea   |  January 15, 2024

I can’t remember such a busy–at least in terms of news–January 15th. I’m on a research trip in a southern city that is treating a few inches of snow as if it was some kind of natural disaster, so it […]

Will Nikki Haley pull off a Gary Hart-style upset in New Hampshire?

John Fea   |  January 10, 2024

The New Hampshire primary–the first of the primary season–is scheduled for January 23, 2004. Sometimes strange things happen in the New Hampshire primary. Remember when: Henry Cabot Lodge beat Barry Goldwater in 1964? Edmund Muskie beat George McGovern in 1972? […]

And then there were three (at least in terms of GOP debate qualifiers)

John Fea   |  January 3, 2024

Three GOP presidential hopefuls have qualified for the final debate before the Iowa caucuses. They are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Ron DeSantis. Haley and DeSantis will participate in the January 10 debate at Drake University, five days before the […]

Nikki Haley’s 3-2-1 GOP primary strategy

John Fea   |  November 18, 2023

Nikki Haley is surging in New Hampshire with a little more than two months to go before the January 23, 2024 primary. Can she win the GOP nomination? It’s a long shot. But according to journalist Ron Brownstein she has […]

There is a good chance Trump will lose Iowa in January 2024

John Fea   |  July 11, 2023

On Friday,July 14th the GOP candidates for president will get a chance to speak to Iowa evangelicals. Bob Vander Plaats, the most powerful Christian Right activist in the Hawkeye State, is sponsoring the event. Tucker Carlson is hosting it. Fox […]