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This live blog is now closed. You can follow latest updates on the Senate vote hereNikki Haley has said in a new campaign advert attacking Donald Trump and Joe Biden that she is the “better choice” for America, as the former South Carolina governor tries to regain momentum after narrowly losing to Ron DeSantis in the Iowa caucuses.Haley puts herself forward as the better...

Former president a step closer to Joe Biden rematch, as Ron DeSantis edges out Nikki Haley for distant second place finishIowa caucus 2024 – full resultsDonald Trump has won an overwhelming victory in the US’s first election contest of 2024, easily fending off a winnowed field of Republicans in the Iowa caucuses.The Associated Press called the race for Trump rapidly, while caucusgoers in much...

In today’s newsletter: The first real results of the 2024 presidential campaign are a hammer blow to Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. Last night, the race for the US presidency formally started – and Donald Trump has won the first round by a landslide. With 99% of votes counted, Trump has 51% of Republican...

For some Americans, it’s a nightmare from which they cannot wake, but for others it’s a new chapter in the Maga sagaThere is a familiar scene in many a film where the protagonist jolts awake from a terrible nightmare, only to realise that he or she didn’t wake up at all: the nightmare continues.For the millions of Americans who abhor Donald Trump, there was...

Ex-president beats Republican rivals as DeSantis finishes a distant second, Haley slides into third place and Ramaswamy drops outIowa results tracker: how the candidates rankTrump wins in Iowa as contest kicks off 2024 election raceFlorida senator Marco Rubio formally endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign on Sunday, effectively snubbing his state’s own governor Ron DeSantis.In a social media post, Rubio cited his work with...

Donald Trump won early and Ron DeSantis’ investment in Iowa paid off but Nikki Haley has focused more on New HampshireThe Iowa caucuses took place on Martin Luther King Jr’s Day, a national holiday, while a raging winter storm swept through the region.But still many Iowans made it to their precinct to cast their vote in the first Republican state primary of the 2024...

As the Florida governor tries to get Trump votes, Republicans worry he doesn’t have what it takes to beat Joe Biden in NovemberAmid a campaign that has, from its very first minutes, not gone quite as planned, Ron DeSantis took the stage on Saturday before a crowd of supporters in an Iowa office complex to inform them that the latest obstacle – a historically...

Dan Marburger was injured in shooting at Perry high school on 4 January, during which an 11-year-old student was killedAn Iowa high school principal who was wounded in a school shooting has died, the state’s governor said.Dan Marburger was injured during a mass shooting at Perry high school on 4 January. One person, an 11-year-old student, was killed, and six others injured. The suspect,...

From New Mexico to Portland, Maine, temperatures dropped and snow fell, closing campaigns, football games and roadsIcy winter weather blanketed the US on Saturday as a wave of Arctic storms threatened to break low-temperature records in the heartland, spread cold and snow from coast to coast and cast a chill over everything from football playoffs to presidential campaigns.As the three-day Martin Luther King Jr...

Hours before Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis took to the debate stage in Iowa on Wednesday night, more than 1,000 miles away in New Hampshire Chris Christie shocked his supporters by announcing he was dropping out of the race. The former New Jersey governor was the only candidate to consistently attack Donald Trump, in a field of Republicans trying to beat the former president,...

Ex-UN ambassador calls Florida governor a habitual liar as each tries to make up ground on absent Trump days before Iowa caucusThe fifth Republican presidential debate started and ended with barbed exchanges between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, with neither likely to have moved closer to eclipsing frontrunner Donald Trump in the Iowa caucus next week.The Florida governor slamming Haley for running “to do...

Investigators believe suspect died of self-inflicted gunshot wound, and at least one of the victims is a school administratorPolice said that a 17-year-old suspect killed a sixth grader and wounded five others in a shooting early Thursday at a high school in the small town of Perry, Iowa.The suspect was identified as Dylan Butler, a 17-year-old student at Perry high school, officials said at...