and good evening and welcome to a special edition of outfront. i m erin burnett on this sunday. tonight the first contest of the 2024 election is only hours away. republican candidates are out in temperatures well below zero, but they re still fighting to try to get everybody to turn out and vote in iowa. you re looking at live pictures right now of nikki haley s rally on election eve, and she is not alone. ron desantis and vivek ramaswamy also holding events tonight. their supporters are there too, despite the dangerous conditions. and that s because of course the stakes could not be higher. there is so much on the line in this unprecedented election campaign season that we are now finally in the midst of. haley and desantis are desperately trying to close the gap with trump, who just wrapped up his rally in the final hours. and, you know, as i say, it s unprecedented. but there is still some sense of history here. and in past elections, iowa always ends up being abo
and good evening and welcome to a special edition of outfront. i m erin burnett on this sunday. tonight the first contest of the 2024 election is only hours away. republican candidates are out in temperatures well below zero, but they re still fighting to try to get everybody to turn out and vote in iowa. you re looking at live pictures right now of nikki haley s rally on election eve, and she is not alone. ron desantis and vivek ramaswamy also holding events tonight. their supporters are there too, despite the dangerous conditions. and that s because of course the stakes could not be higher. there is so much on the line in this unprecedented election campaign season that we are now finally in the midst of. haley and desantis are desperately trying to close the gap with trump, who just wrapped up his rally in the final hours. and, you know, as i say, it s unprecedented. but there is still some sense of history here. and in past elections, iowa always ends up being about tur
florida governor desantis, former self gone governor nikki haley and entrepreneur transcend making final pitches to voters while former president donald trump scaled back his in person rallies across the hawkeye state this weekend for it he continues to dominate the polling there. good evening i am jon scott and this is the fox report. we have team coverage for you on the ground in iowa. grady trimble will look at tom s campaign, aisha has more on nikki haley but first bill melugin is live in west des moines it is a bitter negative . bill? john, the weather outside is absolute brutal. that s why we decided to come indoors take it a look right here we are showing a negative eight where we are at that is without any wind chill. when you go outside with the wind it s a feels like temperature of more than at negative 30 degrees. remarkable. even with that photo governor ron desantis has held multiple campaign events here in iowa today. his supporters have been canvassing th
former president donald trump canceling three out of four in-person events weekend due to the freezing cold weather and blizzard warnings, opting for virtual rallies instead. welcome to fox news live, i m griff jenkins. joey: i m jacqui heinrich. this is all happening as ron desantis and nikki haley continue duking it out for their battle for a distant second place. we have fox team coverage, we will start with grady trimble who s braving the weather there in des moines. hey, grady. reporter: hey, jackie. former president trump was supposed to have a busy weekend here in iowa, but as griff noted, he canceled a few of his events. one of them though is still on for tomorrow. all of the campaigns kind of scrambling because of this cold and snowy weather we ve been experiencing. take a look at the latest polling here in iowa. it shows the former president with a commanding lead. former south carolina governor nikki haley gaining some ground but still way behind trump. at his
quick sourcing a late surge i think of a shock to the system on monday night. i ve been more adventure than all of the others combined. i was report reward people who work hard to show up and are honest and transparent. i am a florida boy. born and bred. and yet here i am and negative temperatures. people are willing to come out in here for me, i am going to show up all the way till the end of this. see further they are some of the republican presidential candidates who are braving the bitter cold to the finish line. it s on for the final weekend before the iowa caucuses on monday. they re trying to cover as much ground as they can before voting starts in those rooms in the hawkeye state. despite a brutal winter storm that is putting in that state into a real deep freeze. hello everyone this is fox news live a welcome i am eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hello eric, hello everyone i am arthel neville. this wicked winter storm that hit iowa and many parts of central and nor