• ‘Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He’s the clear front runner on the other side at this point,’ Biden wrote on social media after Iowa caucuses
  • He has focused his time on the campaign trail on slamming Trump
  • Experts say Trump could have Republican nomination sewn up by March 

Joe Biden said Donald Trump is the ‘clear front runner’ for the Republican nomination with his win in the Iowa caucus, arguing the 2024 contest will be ‘me vs. MAGA Republicans.’

‘Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He’s the clear front runner on the other side at this point. But here’s the thing: this election was always going to be you and me vs. extreme MAGA Republicans. It was true yesterday and it’ll be true tomorrow,’ Biden noted on his social media accounts.

He ended his observation with a plea for donations to his re-election bid. Trump, meanwhile, used his victory on Monday night to call on the Republican Party to unite behind him so he can ‘take the country’ back from Biden. 

Trump won the Iowa caucuses with a record-breaking 30-point victory. He finished with 51 percent of the vote, far ahead of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on 21 per cent, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on 19 per cent, and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy on 8 percent, who dropped out of the race on Monday night.

Biden, meanwhile, told the Rev. Al Sharpton that he’s running for a second term because Trump  is the ‘most anti-democratic’ president in ‘American history.’

He also ripped the former president for wanting ‘revenge on people.’

‘The things that Trump is saying. Trump is saying things that are just off the wall,’ Biden said in an interviewed that aired on Sharpton’s radio show on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

‘He’s the most anti-democratic – with a small ‘d’ – president in American history. The things he’s saying. And he means them. He’s talking about he’s running to get revenge on people,’ Biden added. ‘It’s just outrageous things.’

Biden’s interview aired the same day Iowa voters were going to caucus sites in the first contest in the GOP presidential nomination contest.

And the president has faced scrutiny over his decision to run for another four years, with critics citing poor approval ratings and concerns about his age. At 81, Biden would be 86 by the end of a second term. Trump, at 77, hasn’t faced the same scrutiny of his age.

Some experts are already predicting Trump could have the Republican presidential nomination effectively sewn up by March, which would be one of the earliest starts of a general election campaign.

Trump leads Biden by one point in the RealClearPolitics polling average of the 2024 presidential election.

And a CBS News/YouGov poll on Monday found that Trump, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis each beat Biden in a head-to-head match-up on the 2024 general election.

While Trump leads in the GOP primary poll, Haley fared the best against Biden.  Haley had an 8-point lead over Biden — 53 percent support to 45 percent, showing strong support from moderates and independents.

Biden’s focus on the campaign trail has been on Trump. He has made defending democracy a centerpiece of his reelection bid and has repeatedly said Trump threatens the principles on which the country was founded.

After the blowout victory in Iowa on Monday night, Trump quickly looked forward and said the ‘big night is going to be in November when we take back our country’ in the general election.