math? plus, a palestinian american student says she s lost more than 100 members of her family to israeli air strikes. other relatives, american citizens, she says, are still trying to leave gaza. she s here to share her story before speaking today at what organizers say will be the largest march for gaza in the u.s. since the start of the war. and some migrant families in new york will have to move out of their temporary housing this week. i ll speak to the city council s immigration committee chair about why she says the mayor is causing harm to vulnerable people. i m victor blackwell. let s start the show. the first voting of 2024 happens on monday, so we will finally start to learn where republican voters stand in this consequential election year. but not at a place that s representative of america. iowa is around 90% white, according to census data, so it s no surprise that they re the majority of voters participating in the caucuses. but there are also black peopl
caucuses, 2% of iowans were hispanic, less than 1% were black. same in 2012, same in 2008. less than 1% black caucused for republicans. however, when it came to the general election, one in five black voters voted for donald trump, a third of latino voters voted for donald trump. so is there anything that explains the disparity between the caucus process and going out and supporting a republican and in the general where minorities do support republicans in iowa? great question. one of the things that the brown and black forums of america are going to begin working on is polling. we see polling every day, we hear all the time that republicans are increasing the amount of minorities who are supporting them. that s been going up since 2024 i mean 2016. we are saying we need to do polling from a minority