President Joe Biden sought on Thursday to play down the gravitas of former President Donald Trump’s caucus win in Iowa on Monday.

Trump won 51% of votes in Iowa, the first nominating contest of the 2024 cycle, outpacing challengers Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley by nearly 30 points.

Biden fielded questions from reporters before departing the White House for North Carolina, including one question about what the Iowa results meant for his own reelection hopes, and discounted Trump’s big night.

“I don’t think Iowa means anything. The president got 50-some-thousand votes, the lowest number of votes anybody who’s won got,” Biden responded. “You know, this idea that he’s going to run away, he can think anyway he wants. Let him make that judgment.”

Trump’s campaign sought to cast Monday’s results as a landslide victory, but Biden was correct in noting the low relative number of total votes the former president received.

Severe winter storms blanketed Iowa and much of the country with feet of snow in the days leading up to Monday’s contest, which severely drove down turnout at the state caucuses.

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Roughly 110,000 Republicans voted on Monday, a significant decline from the 187,000 who voted in the 2016 GOP caucuses that saw Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) win with a more than 3-point advantage on the field.

The total number of votes cast in the 2024 Iowa caucuses marked the state’s lowest Republican turnout in a nominating contest since 2000.