Republicans, in one key Battleground State are pushing forward with a rather controversial Rule Change fueled by trumps disproved, debunked election lies about the 2020 election. And leading this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris may have won the debate, but she could, could still well lose the election today. The Harris Campaign says, despite any momentum from Last Nights performance, they still consider this a 50, 50 race, a Coin Flip than with just 55 days to go so the Harris Campaign says theyre not taking their feet off the gas. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump is claiming he had the best debate of his life. Lets bring in cnns kristen holmes, who covers the Trump Campaign and Priscilla Alvarez who covers the Harris Campaign. Kristen to you first on this day after the debate, trump is claiming victory, although many in the republican party, you have a much more realistic assessment of what happened last time thats right jake, of course is going to depend on what republican
good morning to you, it saturday, january the 20th. i m ali velshi. three days, three remaining candidates for the republican nomination are gonna face off in the new hampshire primaries. ron desantis, nikki haley, and donald trump. they re all holding offense throughout the state this weekend. and in the normal presidential election year, the race would really be ramping up right now. we would be talking about momentum from iowa and how the independents would line up in new hampshire and who would last through south carolina and to make it to super tuesday? this isn t a normal year. this is a post trump era of american politics, and anyone who s been tank attention to the republican party and as long as it s concluded the try some piece multiply indicted experts wouldn t will be the last man standing. that s how thoroughly he has taken over the gop. the former presidents decisive victory in iowa on monday resulted in the republican party consolidating its support for him eve
people of iowa. come together, it will happen soon, too. his remarks will not air here live. censoring democracy to save democracy. that is a new one. vivek joins primetime. think it is worth it? peasants pay for your crime? that is a stupid question. no such thing as stupid question, john, just stupid answers. a bunch of dead robots out here. jesse: where did global warming go? biden s ev freeze. plus, chris hanson is back. there is something you need to know. i m chris hanson. jesse: a win for voters, a loss for lawyers, the headline from iowa. democracy is not decided in the courtroom, it is decided by you, the voter. first time in years the will of the people was clear. americans delivered a message without interference from partisan judges and prosecutors. it is back in the hands of we the people in historic shellacking donald trump went home winner 98 out of 99 counties, beating desantis and haley combined. a blow out doubling his 2016 pchlsz. turn
than half of the republican members of congress and before all the votes were even counted in iowa on monday night, at least at least a fair, nick the gop house conference, there was already calling for the other candidates to drop out. this weekend, she is in new hampshire campaigning on the former president s behalf and maybe auditioning to be his running mate. also at a rally last night, trump received a key endorsement for one of his former 2024 opponents, the south carolina senator tim scott, who was ironically appointed to his position by then south carolina governor nikki haley. as was the case in 2016, virtually the entire gop is falling in line behind trump. nearly two thirds of iowa republicans say that they believe he would still be fit to be president even if he is fit committed of a crime. a similar responded that believe president biden legitimately run the 2020 election. a sign that trump s baseless big lie continues to have a hold on the gop. the response
wisconsin showing no clear leader in the democrat mandela barnes. pennsylvania with democratic lieutenant governor john fetterman, very narrowly ahead of dr. mehmet oz, just outside the margin of error. time to square the importance of this day, we learned today that former president obama will be campaigning their final weekend before election day. party officials familiar with the planning telling cnn they ve got appearances scheduled for pittsburgh and philadelphia with the possibility of having more. early voting is underway there, and 38 other states. so, far turnout has been heavy 2018, midterms with nearly 7. 3 million ballots already cast. with, it we ve already seen multiple reports of voter intimidation, including two armed men dressed in tactical gear spotted about a drop box in mesa, arizona, friday night. attorney general merrick garland was asked about it this afternoon. to prevent, to guarantee a free and fair vote by everyone was qualified to vote. and