forward and leave the negativity and baggage behind. reporter: desantis continuing to slam haley, likening her performance at a cnn debate to hillary clinton. it was me versus hillary, i mean, nikki. reporter: and criticizing the large campaign donors supporting her. she has not gone all 99 counties, doesn t like to interrupt the voter, they just spend, spend, spend, and somehow that s going to do the trick. that s not the way it works. reporter: at one event in iowa, desantis battled not just temperatures, but climate protesters. this is what s wrong with the college system right there, that s exhibit a. reporter: trump will hold his final events in iowa this weekend after spending thursday in a new york courtroom. speaking during closing arguments in his civil fraud trial. this is a political witch hunt, the likes of which nobody has ever seen before. they owe me damages for what they have done. reporter: the former president making the legal cases
judge was not injured, and there was no one in her home. last month, jack smith, the justice department special counsel overseeing two cases over donald trump was swatted, a law enforcement tells cnn, so was maine secretary of state, after she ruled trump ineligible to appear on the state s ballot, and hours before thursday s closing arguments, a bomb threat at the home of the judge presiding over trump s civil trial. these threats of violence are unacceptable. they threaten the fabric of our democracy. reporter: in may, the fbi set up a database to track swatting cases for the first time. since then, the agency says it has received more than 500 reports. finding the perpetrators who often mask their caller i.d. data can be difficult, and that s why political figures who have fallen victim to the crime are urging congress to ask. if there was a federal law on the books, given that this person is calling from another
meanwhile, governor ron desantis, vivek ramaswamy, they are staying the course for now, but that of course could change in the hours ahead. blizzard conditions hitting iowa, bringing the campaign trail to a halt on the eve of former president trump s return to the state. i have got to tell you, y all, it is cold outside. the national weather service says life threatening winter weather is expected it hit the hawk eye state with windchills bringing temperatures as low as 45 degrees below zero. temperatures are dropping, you know, my florida blood is adapting. reporter: nikki haley cancelling all of her campaign stops friday, opting for telephone town halls. we are a country in disarray, and the world is on fire. and the only way we get out of this is if we elect a new conservative leader to carry us