hot election competition in Iowa ice; The first test for Trump

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, the preliminary stage competition to determine the final candidate of the Republican Party for the 2024 US presidential election is going to start in a few hours in the cold below 30 degrees Celsius.

Voters in this state are supposed to go to schools, municipalities, stadiums, places of worship and other electoral meeting places to participate in the first election meeting and register their vote for the candidate of their choice.

The voting process in Iowa and some other states is not by going to the polls and writing the candidate’s name on the ballot. In these states, voting is done based on a method called “caucus”. In this method, the eligible people announce their desired candidate by participating in the meetings and party forums.

What is consensus?

Voting is done in two ways in American elections. The first and most common method is voting with ballots. But the second method, which only takes place in a few states, is called consultation or party meeting, in which the voters must appear at the polling stations at a set time and after conducting public debates about the candidates by methods other than the ballot box, for example by raising their hands. declares themselves.

Consultation was once the most common way to choose election candidates, but today only a few states vote this way, Iowa being one of them.

At the party meeting, citizens choose their desired candidate in ways other than the ballot.

The Iowa caucus is scheduled to be held at 20:00 local time in 1657 polling places in 99 districts of the state. This meeting will be held in conditions where the cold below 30 degrees Celsius may affect people’s participation.

Since 1972, the party meeting in the state of Iowa has always been the beginning of the election effort in It was the primary stage of the US presidential election.

What is the US primary election?

Primary elections are a stage of the US presidential election through which American parties try to nominate a candidate to compete in the national election stage in November.

Usually, the party holding the presidency nominates the president as a candidate without entering the stage of personal primaries. Therefore, the primary stage is more important for the party trying to take over the White House.

In the primary elections, like the national elections, citizens do not choose their candidates directly. . They choose election lawyers (delegates) and these lawyers later choose candidates on behalf of the citizens.

The candidate who is selected in the primary stage in the “Republican National Convention” that summer This year, it will be held in the state of “Milwaukee” and will be announced as the candidate of the Republican Party to compete with “Joe Biden”.

The importance of the Iowa caucuses

If we only consider the statistics and figures, the Iowa caucuses cannot be a very important indicator to determine the final candidate of the Republican Party. Who will it be?

Iowa has only 40 election lawyers at the Republican National Convention, which is statistically only 1.6% of all election lawyers in all states.

However, the results in this state will be a benchmark for each candidate since it is the beginning of the primaries, and possibly an indicator for speculation about the outcome of the primaries in other states. will be. This election is especially important for Donald Trump, who according to the polls is the leading candidate of the Republican Party.

However, the vote in the state is a good predictor of the race between the Republican Party candidate and incumbent Joe Biden. It will not be America. Even if Trump is chosen as the candidate of the Republican Party, according to what the polls show, a tough competition is expected between him and Biden.

Trump in the polls

The NBC news network published the results of a poll on Saturday that showed Trump ahead of his rivals by 48 percent. . After him, “Nikki Haley” with 20% and “Ron DeSantis” with 16% are in the second and third places.

Many analysts say that Trump’s popularity among Republican voters indicates is that they did not pay attention to the legal cases raised against him and also his role in the events of January 6, 2021.

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