this is it, the official kickoff for the 2024 battle for the white house, and one state has the first shot at shaping the race. it s decision time in the bitter cold heartland. iowa has a huge, huge role to play here. this starts here. there is no way iowa is voting against trump. the first votes in a presidential contest that is testing american democracy in extraordinary ways. are you ready? will the former president and unprecedented legal peril get one step closer to a white house comeback? 2024 is our final battle. it s iowa s choice. tonight, after months of anticipation, the republican race gets real. donald trump aiming to drive home his dominance over his gop rivals. we got to be sure that we put this thing away. ron desantis and nikki haley. our best days are yet to come. engaging in a heated showdown to be the top alternative to trump. nikki haley is running on her donors issues. i m the only one running on your issues. he is going to
Hour that Malaysian Police have arrested a woman in connection with the death of the estranged half brother of north koreas leader, kim jong un. Kim jong nam is thought to have been poisoned while waiting to fly out of Kuala Lumpur Airport. The woman who was carrying Vietnamese Travel Documents was detained at the same airport. Police say they are now seeking several other suspects as they continue their investigation. Sarah corker reports. Was kim jong nam poisoned by assassins as he prepared to board a flight in the Malaysian Capital on monday . Confusion and mystery surround the death of The Half Brother of the north korean dictator. Now south korean Officials Say they believe he was murdered. Translation the government is certainlyjudging that the murdered person is kim jong nam. Since this case is still being investigated we should wait for details until the malaysian government makes an announcement. Just before he died, Kimjong Nam Is reported to have told medical workers he was
To catch up with but, at this very early stage, way out in front right now. 74. 6 of the vote. But if you just take a look at the number of votes, youll see what i mean about this being very early days 238 votes. Ron desantis here, you can see, in second place with 15. 4 . Nikki haley coming in third. What you will notice, compared to that last Des Moines register poll we had seen theres a switch here between Ron Desantis and nikki haley. Nikki haley had previously leapfrogged Ron Desantis. Now, at this very early stage, Ron Desantis has managed to pull ahead. Lets zoom in on some of the counties and find out whats going on there. This is pulk, home to Des Moines of course, the state capital. Very early Days Just1 out of 176
paying jobs. the economy has created more than 700,000 manufacturing jobs and that is 10 million total jobs created under this president. a fact check here. according to the bureau of labor statistics the economy added jobs back lost in the pandemic and created 337,000 jobs. the economy added back all the jobs lost during the pandemic and created 804,000 jobs. now as the president pushes the green agenda overall energy is up 74.6%. fuel oil up 68.5% year-over-year. natural gas, electricity up double digits. instead of changing energy policies to address this the president is doing a deal with venezuela dictator nicolas maduro. they have throttled the oil and gas industry in the point in this country our national security is at risk.
The global coronavirus caseload has topped 274.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.35 million and vaccinations to over 8.68 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.