Eight years after losing the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump won the Hawkeye State by a record margin of nearly 30 percentage points, winning an outright majority of the state and blowing the polls out of the water. The former president did so despite spending more time in Manhattan courtrooms than in Iowa and being outspent 4-to-1 by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in ad buys in the state.

While the sheer magnitude of Trump’s victory provided proof of his raw hold over the party, the entrance and exit polling also indicated that Trump is winning as much because President Joe Biden is losing.