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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.
When it comes to the Iowa Hawkeyes 2026 football season, it doesn’t get much bigger than Ohio State coming to Kinnick Stadium.
No one knows at this stage where the Buckeyes will be come Oct. 3, but Iowa has a chance to make an early impression against a team that is no stranger to winning the big one.
Iowa’s B1G schedule couldn’t get off to a worse start as they head to Michigan and then welcome the Buckeyes to Kinnick.
Hopefully for Iowa’s sake, their first three games against Northern Illinois, Iowa State, and Northern Iowa are enough to get them prepared. If not, things could get ugly.
ESPN Believes Ohio State is Iowa’s Biggest Opponent in 2026
The Michigan game will certainly be a test, but hosting the Buckeyes is a different animal. That gives the Hawkeyes an advantage like no other, and if there was ever a time to give OSU a run for their money, it’s in Iowa City on Oct. 3.
“The Hawkeyes haven’t faced Ohio State at Kinnick Stadium since 2017, when Nate Stanley threw five touchdowns as they stunned the Buckeyes 55-24. An early October win over Ohio State could propel Iowa into the Big Ten title and playoff conversations,” Jake Trotter wrote.
To put things into perspective, Indiana and Oregon were the other two teams that had the Buckeyes listed as their defining game in the 2026 season. Shockingly, Iowa was actually selected against a team, that being Minnesota. Seeing as that’s for the Floyd of Rosedale, it makes complete sense.
Iowa Can’t Let Regular Season Opportunities Go To Waste
Last year was seemingly the Hawkeyes’ first time to actually make the College Football Playoffs. They came up short as their losses to No. 16 Iowa State, No. 11 Indiana, No. 9 Oregon and No. 17 USC all added up. Sure, those were by a combined 15 points, but that doesn’t matter, as it’s bad enough that a three-loss team made the playoffs.
Iowa ended with a bang as they took down No. 14 Vanderbilt in the ReliaQuest Bowl, 34-27. Now, all eyes are on either Jeremy Hecklinski or Hank Brown. One of those men will have a chance to make their first B1G start at the Big House in Michigan.
It doesn’t get any tougher than that, as Iowa is immediately putting their new QB into deep water. They’ll have three games prior to that to get up to speed, but other than that, it’s go time as OSU awaits after their trip to Michigan.
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MANCHESTER, Iowa — The state of Iowa lost a titan of the prep coaching world this week. Former Kee High School baseball coach Gene Schultz died on Monday at the age of 80.
Schultz spent 45 seasons as the baseball coach at Kee, helping turn the program into an Iowa dynasty. He won 9 State championships (not counting 2 fall titles, which the IHSAA doesn’t recognize in the record books), and took the Hawks to 19 State tournaments, which is also the most in Iowa history.
His 1,754 wins are not only the most in Iowa history, but the most of any high school baseball coach in the country.
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