While the candidates fight, the establishment frets. Who should they be worrying about more . Trump or ted cruz . And with three weeks to go before the voting begins, polls in New Hampshire and iowa are out, and dont look now but we have a real race on the democratic side. Joining me for insight and analysis are Jeff Greenfield of politico and the daily beast. Helene cooper of the New York Times. Jennifer jacobs of the Des Moines Register and robert costa of the Washington Post. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good sunday morning. Apologies for all of you that didnt win powerball, but weve got a huge show for you today, include ing my sit down with donald trump and the struggling everyday by some in the socalled republican establishment to figure out some way to stop either trump or ted cruz from becoming the partys nominee. We can say this theyve got their work cut out for them. News wall street journal marist poll out in iowa, ted cruz holds a slim lead over donald trump, 28 t
New hampshire, all trump, 30 . With rubio, christie and cruz in double digit bus trailing badly in a battle for second place. Bush and john kasich just under double digits sitting at 9 followed by rand paul and a fading ben carson. But the news here may be on the democratic side. We have quite a race. We always knew we had one in New Hampshire. But in iowa its tossup. Hillary clintons lead there has shrunk to three points over Bernie Sanders in a critical state for her with Martin Omalley back at 5 but that 5 number very important for him for the next democratic debate. In New Hampshire, split the leaders but essentially the same story, sanders narrowly ahead by four points. Omalley barely registers. Its fair to say a year ago no one would have predicted Bernie Sanders mounting this challenge to clinton or donald trump leading anywhere. But thats where we are three weeks before the first voting. And yesterday i sat down backstage with trump in ottumwa, iowa. We began by talking about t
And with three weeks to go before the voting begins, polls in New Hampshire and iowa are out, and dont look now but we have a real race on the democratic side. Joining me for insight and analysis are Jeff Greenfield of politico and the daily beast. Helene cooper of the New York Times. Jennifer jacobs of the Des Moines Register and robert costa of the Washington Post. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good sunday morning. Apologies for all of you that didnt win powerball, but weve got a huge show for you today, include ing my sit down with donald trump and the struggling everyday by some in the socalled republican establishment to figure out some way to stop either trump or ted cruz from becoming the partys nominee. We can say this theyve got their work cut out for them. According to our brand new nbc news wall street journal marist poll out in over donald trump, 28 to 24 , marco rubio and ben carson fighting far distant third. As well show you later, if trump manages to bring in n
Im lester holt. Thanks for joining us. Political gravity and every prediction of his imminent collapse. And whos going pay for the wall . And he now says hes in this race for long run. Im not leaving. Going straight to the white house . Going all the way. And hes ready to use bill clintons personal past as a weapon. I dont want to say its a threat, but its a threat. My sitdown with donald trump. Plus, the republican circular firing squad. I dont care if your name is barack obama, ted cruz, marco rubio, youve never run a thing of consequence in your life. While the candidates fight, the establishment frets. Who should they be worrying about more . Trump or ted cruz . And with three weeks to go before the voting begins, polls in New Hampshire and iowa are out, and dont look now but we have a real race on the democratic side. Analysis are Jeff Greenfield of politico and the daily beast. Helene cooper of the New York Times. Jennifer jacobs of the Des Moines Register and robert costa of the
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