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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...

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...

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...