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US Presidential Election Heats Up As Frigid Iowa Tests Trump

Men shovel snow in Ankeny, Iowa, on January 12, 2024, as record-breaking cold continues to complicate the Iowa caucuses (Credit: AFP)

Voters venture into sub-zero temperatures Monday to kick off the Republican presidential nomination race with the Iowa caucuses, the first major test of whether runaway front-runner Donald Trump is as much of a sure thing as he appears.

With a commanding lead in polls, the ex-president is expected easily to win the Midwestern state's first-in-the-nation vote as he bids to be the Republican standard-bearer against President Joe Biden in November.

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