it is 8:00 p.m. in new york, 7:00 in iowa for the caucuses where have just been called to order. the 2024 election is officially underway. after a prayer and the pledge of allegiance iowa caucus goers from all 99 counties will hear from representatives of each campaign. ones each representative is heard, you write your preferred candidates name on a piece of paper, put it in a basket and the whole basket is counted in front of everybody. this is about as basic as it gets and that s a good thing. no machines. no harvesting. no drop boxes. those results will come trickling in in any second. we will know the winner tonight. imagine that. early reports indicate that donald trump is performing incredibly well. so sit back and watch because this is actually fun. would you leave your house at night when his 20 below zero, drive across the frozen tundra to politic inside a high school gymnasium? thousands of americans in iowa are. these are the diehards. they ve got a final peptalk t
In 2016 when the iowa caucuses were called for Ted Cruz it was about two hours later in the evening. As you talk to karl, this all depends on what the final tally is going to be. There is plenty of focus on that. The campaign has been trying to tamp down expectations, trying to do so throughout the day. Thats a difficult task. The former president has been saying hes expecting a tremendous result. Hes been talking about the Polling Numbers. Hes got Polling Numbers across the country that is Plus 50 . All of this comes out, the former president was just speaking in a Caucus Site in Clive Iowa not too far from here. Spending an awful lot of time not mentioning his republican rivals but mentioning president joe biden. The supporters want this to end as quickly as they can to get onto the general. Tell me who you see first at the Bar Xi need a name