acoustic rock music woman: safelite is the one i trust. they focus on safety so i can focus on this view. singers: safelite repair, safelite replace. welcome back to american voices, i m charles in for aliciamenendez. about a week republican caucus voters in iowa make a choice, are they going to stick with donald trump or are they going to push the part different direction. a recent fox poll shows trump with more than 50% support among likely gop caucus goers in iowa. ron desantis and nikki haley are neck and neck in the race for second place. wednesday, desantis and haley are gonna square off in the fifth gop debate of the 2024
i think the pressure is most on ron desantis in iowa because ron desantis needs to finish second in order to move on to the next stage, new hampshire, than south carolina. i think both nikki haley and ron desantis know that they re fighting for second place in iowa. but if ron desantis finishes third, he s basically done, that is actually more problematic for nikki haley than it is for donald trump. if ron desantis dropped out, and he drops up for new hampshire or south carolina, most of ron desantis s second choice voters say they re second choice is donald trump. so, is dropping out actually helps donald trump. that s an interesting theory in terms of the data and how it shakes out. let s say for right now, desantis is cooked, the new york times is rerting that trump is keey aware of this but he s so shifting his cus to nikki haley saying,
the momentum that it s gained over the last few wee in a new calling, washington post jennifer rubin writes, virtually no one expects hale to beat trump in iowa. she therefore must make enough waves, defy expectations as the expectations make her say, to put her head and shoulders above arrivals, if not just them out, establishing her as the only viable alternative to trump. back with me, juanita tolliver and matt dowd, matt, desantis told voters today that he plans to stay in the race for the long haul. what are the stakes for him in iowa if he really means that? or could a bad showing issue him an early goodbye? i think all of us have watched politics and often no whenever a politician says they re gonna state the long haul they often get off the bus very early. i ve seen so many politicians say, i m in it, i have the money, and it, and five days later they get out of the race.
carley: his wife. will: governor newsom s wife is going after ron desantis wife for this, she s launched the new national moms for desantis in iowa last week. it s one thing when your policies come after us as mamas, it s another thing when your policies come after our children, and that s when the claws come out. pete: so that s, i mean, the desantis campaign knows that she s a real asset, and so she went to iowa to launch this with governor reynolds who has said she won t endorse in this particular race. but to mobilize, you know, republican female voters, male voters on an issue that really matters to republican voters right now which is parental choice in education and getting all the nonsense that s in the classroom out. well, governor newsom s wife didn t miss if an opportunity to attack her for that. and this is sort of an example of how we talk past each other completely. this is jennifer cycle newsom
in the george w. bush white house, he said that this should never happen, an american official does not bow. it looks like she was summoned to the principal s office x and that s exactly the optics the chinese love. will: meanwhile back at home, the race for president and republican primary continues to heat up. president trump got after florida governor ron desantis yesterday. here s a sampling of what he s had to say. question is, e when will he go to third place? somebody said how come you only attack him? because he s in second place. why don t you attack others? because they re not in second place. but soon, i don t think he will be, so i ll be attacking someone else. every iowan also needs to know that ron desantis despises iowa ethanol and ethanol generally. he s got no personality. i m not a big fan of his, he s highly overrated. he s highly overrated. pete: so that last clip is president trump yesterday in las