Iowa
Biden douses cold water on Trump’s blowout win, doesn’t ‘think Iowa means anything’
President Biden doused cold water on Donald Trump’s momentous win over his 2024 GOP foes in Iowa earlier this week.
Biden, who lost his 2020 Iowa Caucus with 13.7% of the final vote and a fourth-place finish, suggested that Trump’s record-breaking estimated 51% victory wasn’t very significant.
“I don’t think Iowa means anything. The president got 50-some-thousand votes — the lowest number of votes anybody who’s won got,” Biden chided to reporters Thursday.
Trump amassed at least 56,260 votes in the Hawkeye State this year, per the most recent estimate.
Back in 2020, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) won the popular vote with 45,652 supporting him in the final count. But that primary was far more crowded than the 2024 GOP contest.
Some 110,000 voters participated in Iowa’s 2024 Caucus, compared to 187,000 who participated in the 2016 GOP event, and over 176,400 who partook in the Democrat’s glitch-plagued 2020 Iowa Caucus.
That was a roughly 15% turnout for Iowan Republicans on Monday, per the Des Moines Register, and the lowest in a GOP contest there since 2000, Business Insider reported.
Monday was dogged by frigid below-zero temperatures and fairly slick road conditions in parts of the state.
The 45th president’s roughly 30-point margin of victory was the largest achieved in the Iowa Caucus since it became the first in the nation presidential nominating contest.
Trump’s allies heralded the victory as emblematic of his political dominance, but Biden sounded doubtful.
“You know, this idea that it’s been a runaway, I think he can characterize it any way he wants. I’ll let them make that judgment,” Biden went on.
Shortly after Trump’s blowout win, Biden took note of his dominance of Trump on the GOP field as the two seemingly careen toward a rematch of 2020 this November.
“Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He’s the clear front runner on the other side at this point,” Biden posted on X.
“But here’s the thing: this election was always going to be you and me vs. extreme MAGA Republicans. It was true yesterday and it’ll be true tomorrow,” he added with a link to a fundraising page.
Republicans are poised to hold their next presidential contest in New Hampshire next Tuesday. Biden is mounting a write-in campaign there due to a feud between the Granite State and the Democratic Party.
At the moment, Trump has a threadbare 0.9 percentage point edge nationally when environmental lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr. is in the mix, per the RealClearPolitics aggregate.
More importantly, polls show a nailbiter general election showdown between Trump and Biden in the key battleground states, which will determine the election.
Audi Crooks, Jada Williams reflect on loss to Syracuse
Iowa State’s Audi Crooks and Jada Williams discuss what went wrong in the second half for the Cyclones’ to fall to Syracuse.
Iowa State’s first-round exit from the 2026 Women’s NCAA Tournament has triggered a mass exodus, with a reported eight players leaving the team to enter the transfer portal.
Junior forward Addy Brown announced her decision to “move on” from Iowa State and enter the transfer portal in a social media post on Tuesday, March 24.
“This decision comes after a lot of thought about my future and goals,” Brown wrote in a post shared to social media. “While it’s never easy to move on, I believe this is the right step for me and I’m excited for what’s ahead as I continue to grow and chase my dreams.”
By Thursday, March. 26, several other players followed suit. Junior guard Jada Williams confirmed she’ll be “pursuing my dreams elsewhere” for her senior season. She added in a social media post, “Iowa State will always have a place in my heart and I’ll never forget the Iowa State way.”
Williams transferred to Iowa State for the 2025-26 season after playing for Arizona for the first two years of her career. William averaged career-highs in points (15.3), assists (7.7) and field goal percentage (41.7) in her lone season at Iowa State.
Iowa State freshman guard Reese Beaty, freshman guard Freya Jensen, sophomore guard Reagan Wilson, sophomore guard Aili Tanke, junior forward Alisa Williams and junior center Lilly Taulelei all intend to enter the transfer portal, according to On3’s Talia Goodman.
The transfer portal opens on Monday, April 6, following the NCAA Tournament championship game on Sunday, April 5.
Could Iowa State junior center Audi Crooks be next? Crooks declined to answer whether she would return next season following Iowa State’s 72-63 loss to Syracuse on Saturday, March 21. She instead said, “We’re all still processing everything and just being there for each other right now is the priority. That’s the main thing, making sure everybody is mentally OK through this tough time.”
Crooks had 37 points (17-of-25 FG) and five rebounds in the losing effort against Syracuse.
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