No real shock after Trump wins Iowa

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : A more Trumpist party is a party less favorable to immigration and free trade, and less concerned with matters like limited government and the national debt.
60% : There was much talk about DeSantis being likely to drop out if he came in third in a state his campaign spent considerable energy and money on performing well in.
56% : With 51% of the vote, Trump won in a landslide over his fellow Republicans.
42% : The only real drama was whether Trump would get more or less than 50% support and whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would come in second or third.
37% : He threw his support behind Trump.
32% : There were complaints from the DeSantis campaign about early media pronouncements that Trump prevailed in Iowa, even as votes were still underway.
28% : Most glaringly has been DeSantis confusingly trying and failing to convince Trump supporters that he's a better Trump than Trump.
28% : Haley, while sometimes being willing to condemn both sides of the aisle on matters like federal spending and the national debt, has been reluctant to explicitly go after the former president.
26% : Keeping DeSantis and Haley in the race, presumably, is that while Trump got 51% of the vote, that means nearly half of Republicans wanted someone else to be the GOP nominee.
26% : But still, despite several criminal indictments and all of the legitimate complaints one can make about Trump, nothing has been able to deter most Republicans from rallying behind him.
25% : And to be sure, public polling has consistently shown that most Americans aren't excited about seeing a rematch between Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.

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