made an extraordinary contribution to move this country toward being a more perfect union. the film rustin is streaming now on netflix. please watch it. it s great. audra mcdonald and aml ameen, so honored to have both of you here today. thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. hello on this monday. it is 10:00 eastern. happy caucus day. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes on iowa with the official start of the 2024 election season. republican candidates all making their final appeal to iowans ahead of tonight s gop caucuses. the caucuses will be called to order at 7:00 p.m. local time, 8:00 p.m. eastern. the vote will be held by secret ballot. our final nbc news des moines register poll shows donald trump maintaining his nearly 30-point lead over the rest of the field with a tight race for second place. one major and potentially dangerous obstacle stands in t
Were looking at a batch of folks that werent even involved in the process when Donald Trump first ran against Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in 2016. Right. When he did not win the iowa caucuses. Allie, you spoke to Nikki Haley yesterday. What can you tell us about her expectations and her message to iowa caucusgoers. We have a sense of what the Trump Coalition will look like. It seems that coalition is remaining strong. If you look at all the polls, it reenforces the theme that this is trumps race to lose in iowa. Thats the assumption of the other candidates as well. Its fascinating when you look at the way Nikki Haley is trying to make a run at it. Shes going to focus on the urban and the suburban areas. Places where senator Marco Rubio did well. Those are a lot of the same places that Nikki Haley is going to try to be making inroads,