‘It’s Stunning’: Fox Anchor Says Trump Has ‘Swept With All Age Groups’ As Race Is Called Quicker Than Expected

Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum highlighted the strength of former President Donald Trump’s support in the Iowa caucus after the network called the race for him after only thirty minutes of caucusing on Monday night.

Fox host Jesse Watters cut into his show with the breaking news alert from MacCallum and fellow anchor Bret Baier.

“So based on the first results in our Fox News voter analysis, the Fox News decision desk can now project that former President Donald Trump will win the Iowa caucuses,” MacCallum announced.

“He will take the lion’s share of the state’s 40 delegates. This result really solidifies his place as the current frontrunner for the nomination. Uh, former Governor Haley and Governor DeSantis fighting for second. And this is really going to maybe last a while because it’s a close race right now. How we see it based on the numbers we’re looking at,” Baier added, noting:

You know, he the former president, over-performed in the rural parts of Iowa. But it has been overwhelming some of these numbers from these precincts that are already starting to come in, some of them. And we were just talking. It happens quickly. I mean, they do it on pieces of paper. They finish it, they hear everybody talk, and it’s done.

“It’s stunning,” replied MacCallum, adding:

Jesse, I was in touch with someone who’s at a Des Moines precinct, and she said, you know, they listen to the speeches from all of the representatives of the candidates, and then they voted, and it was over very quickly. Everything that we’re seeing is that the former president in Iowa tonight has really swept with all age groups, I mean, clearly strong with, um, you know, rural voters, voters who have lower levels of education, but strong all across the board.

Um, and it lines up with a lot of what we saw in the polling that we saw in the last few days, um, on issues like a strong leader, um, good on the economy. All of these things seem to be bearing fruit for him tonight in Iowa.

“Just one of the stories, Jesse, is going to be, whether the former president can get over 50%, because it’s very possible that he will,” replied Baier on the topic of Trump’s strength.

“So we weren’t expecting to make a call this early in the evening. It seems like you do not have any understanding of how overwhelming the victory was. You say it will be over 50 percent?” Watters followed up.

“I’m not saying it will. It’s going to be close. And if he does, obviously that’s another storyline. Uh, but he’s well ahead of Governor DeSantis and former Governor Haley. Uh, and Vivek Ramaswamy is, is running, uh, a distant fourth, uh, battle for silver medal in Iowa is going to be something I think that takes some time tonight,” Baier replied.

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