Was a Sit Down with oprah. Its not a Press Conference the way it was not a Press Conference . Yes. Speaking of words. Okay. Thank you guys for joining us. Happy friday. Thanks to all of you for being with us as well. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn news central starts right now party has a new scandal on its hands this morning, cnns kfile uncovering explosive online comments made by the republican Nominee Running for North Carolina well, in a governor, republicans trying to distance themselves this morning. But what is the impact now that it can have up and down the ballot this morning for the first time. Millions of americans, it is Election Day in america early Inperson Voting begins in some states with a bevy of Campaign Developments overnight including Donald Trump in a way, blaming jews if he loses in this morning as sheriff is facing Murder Charges after police say he gun down a judge in him its chambers. Sara is out. Im John Berman with kate baldwin, cnn new central starts
strategy. we re going to bring you brand new reporting from inside the campaign. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start today with breaking news on who qualified for cnn s iowa debate next week. last before the caucuses. the deadline to meet the polling threshold just passed, and our political director david chalian joins me now. david, who made the cut? as you noted, the deadline just passed and actually the window of qualification started way back on october 15th. we now know that for the cnn january 10th debate, the three candidates who have qualified are former president trump, nikki haley and ron desantis. we also know that donald trump has not participated in any debate yet this cycle, and he doesn t intend on participating at the cnn debate on january 10th. that leaves haley and desantis on the stage, and that would be the smallest debate stage that we have seen to date. that means that they were the only candidates to hit 10%
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doesn t intend on participating at the cnn debate on january 10th. that leaves haley and desantis on the stage, and that would be the smallest debate stage that we have seen to date. that means that they were the only candidates to hit 10% support in three polls, iowa and national polls, going back to october 15th. no other candidate hit the 10% mark in any single poll of the 15 polls that fit into the qualification window. very interesting. thank you so much. appreciate that. nikki haley and ron desantis are spending millions in ads to pummel each other right now rather than attack the guy leading them by more than 30 points in iowa. we are in des moines following all the campaign developments. steve? reporter: that s right. if you look at the last several