Indicted and unstoppable? Trump clobbers competition in Iowa
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He is charged with inciting a mob to try to overturn his defeat in 2020. So why is it that just three years later, Donald Trump may have already killed suspense in the race to the 2024 Republican nomination? We ask about the former president's record win in the Iowa caucuses, where he barely campaigned in person and stayed so far ahead of the rest of the field that he did not even bother with candidates' debates.
They say there's no such thing as bad publicity. The limelight indeed seems to be serving Trump well in this election year, even if it's from the dock of his countless court cases. To his supporters, he is the victim of a system that's rigged. That narrative is amplified by the likes of Fox News.
But to win a general election, Trump will have to convince enough independent voters that they too are hard done by in this rematch of the nativists versus the globalists. Keenly aware is his rival Joe Biden, who has courted trade unions, pushed subsidies for homegrown industry and incessantly pointed to his own working-class roots.
And yet, despite the January 6 Capitol siege, the race is very close. With populists from France to South America inspired by the Trump method, is this already a turning point for the liberal democracies the world over?
Produced by Juliette Laurain, Rebecca Gnignati and Imen Mellaz.
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