Standing between two Christmas trees topped with red “Make America Great Again” caps this week, Donald Trump told a crowd of several hundred supporters in Waterloo, Iowa, that his poll numbers were “scary because we are leading by so much”.
“We are leading by 30 to 40 points, I guess, but we have got to win, maybe we can win by more than that,” the former US president said. “Because, you know, if we win in a massive number but it is a little bit less than that, they will say, oh, he didn’t meet expectations . . . because they are fake news . . . they are the biggest fakers in the world.”
With less than a month to go until the Iowa caucuses, Trump remains the undisputed frontrunner in a shrinking field of Republicans vying to be the party’s presidential nominee in 2024.