South Dakota's Iowa neighbors go for Donald Trump during GOP caucuses
Larchwood Republicans pick former president after picking Ted Cruz in 2016
LARCHWOOD, Iowa — The unpredictability of Donald Trump is his best asset as the leader of the free world.
That’s according to the one and only nominating speech made on a deathly frigid Monday night in Larchwood, Iowa, during the 2024 GOP presidential caucuses.
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Of the 90 Republicans who showed up to cast ballots inside of the Lyon County town’s City Hall, just Jim Zangger stood up to voice support for the candidate of his choice — the former president whom the Larchwood man also supported during his 2016 campaign.
The pilot and aviation mechanic — not to mention a 2023 inductee into the Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame — said what some people don’t like about Trump is why he’s the best choice to be the 47th president of the United States of America.
“She thinks he’s a little obnoxious and inappropriate at times,” he told the Lyon County Precinct 10 Caucus, referring to why his daughter is not a fan of the former president and front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. “From my position, I think that’s exactly why we need to vote for him, because these foreign leaders — he’s too unpredictable — they don’t know what to think of that.”
Zangger said he attended events with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley leading up to the country’s first contest in the 2024 primary season. And after getting familiarized with Trump’s top contenders, Zangger said he came away believing they mostly parrot policies also championed by their top rival.
“He’ll continue the policies he had and I think we’ll have a great country again,” he said before earning a round of applause from the room.
And though a majority of his fellow caucus-goers were apparently in agreement — Trump earned 65 of the 90 votes cast — DeSantis, Haley as well as Vivek Ramaswamy and Chris Christie also saw some support, though no one in the room bothered to vocalize their support for any of those candidates.
Trump narrowly lost Larchwood to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2016 caucuses.
Early returns showed Trump dominating across Iowa, though he did struggle in Story County — north of Des Moines — where Haley was outpacing the field.
What a bunch of lamebrains. Sad when people can't see what trump is really like.
It's a sad day for this country when "unpredictability" becomes the main attraction of a presidential candidate. We usually expect a person's erratic behavior to start leveling out around third grade.