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
Americans to go out and perform acts of service. Well see him here today at fill abundance, this Food Bank you referenced, packing healthy meals going out to people in need. Some 500,000 people in this region are food insecure. Thats the first part of what well see today. At the same time, this is philadelphia. The president has made three trips to pennsylvania this year, in just the 14 days of this year, i think elevating the importance of this area. We know he was in philadelphia seven times last year for official events and Campaign Events as well. So the governor, one of his advocates, one of his Advisory Board Members in philadelphia, Governor Shapiro said pennsylvania is one of the swingyist of swing states. At the same time, as you referred, ana, well see Sur Gasses for the president in Iowa Today colding a news conference, talking about what they think President Biden offers americans
Of course, 8 00 eastern is when those caucuses get under way. You will be honing in on those counties as we get those Realtime Results after people give their Secret Ballot and results start coming in. Thank you, steve kornacki. The people of iowa are not just voting for president ial candidates, theyre always remembering be loved principal dan marberger. After ten days in the hospital he died after a gunman opened fire in a small high school. He tried to calm down the shooter and, quote, distract him, so students could flee according to his daughter. A sixth grader was also killed in the initial shooting. When were back in just 60 seconds, its not just in iowa, bonechilling weather slamming millions of americans. Are you feeling it . Weve got your forecast. How Mlk Day and 2024 are colliding for President Biden in one Swing State today
Toast. He cant go to new hampshire. Hes now talking about going to South Carolina. He needs to finish second. Thats the thing im going to keep my eye on. Those are the things that strike me as the most significant thing. Ferdnand, what do you think . Will the field narrow after tonight . I think it will. Today is the day ive been dreading, and a lot of americans i suspect as well. This is the first time Donald Trump goes before the voters since he did something No One Else has done in american history, which iso interrupt the peaceful transfer of power, trying to overturn an election from taking place. Unless the polling is catastrophically wrong, i dont think it is, not only is Donald Trump going to win, but Hell Win by an historic margin. Whether Nikki Haley manages to make a fight out of it in new hampshire, i think its all over but the counting once he wins in South Carolina which the polling also shows hes up significantly, this despite the fact that trump called for his
Largely college educated, higher income in those areas. Part of her building that coalition requires her pulling in independents and democrats. Thats certainly the strategy in new hampshire. Our new Des Moines register nbc News Poll bears out thats clearly something playing out on the ground here in iowa as well. One of the questions i asked Nikki Haley Yesterday was can you win the republican nomination with the input of independents and democrats to get you there. This is what she told me. Republicans have lost the last seven out of eight popular votes for president. Thats nothing to be proud of. We should want to win the majority of americans. Thats why you need a new generational Conservative Leader to go in. Were bringing those people in, thats exactly what we should be doing. Reporter haley there making basically a big tent argument. Certainly when you look at a general election, that is exactly the kind of coalition that you want to build. I look back to 2020, for example, when