including the weather right now. it is here. decision day in iowa. good afternoon. i am erin burnett in washington. i am in new york. we want to welcome you to live coverage of the iowa caucuses. we are counting down to the official start of the first contest in the republican presidential race. we want to confuse people. washington, you are in new york. everybody, get ready. the battle for iowa taking place against those record cold temperatures we have been talking about. some places in iowa, the real feel temperature is 35 below zero, which has not stopped the candidates in a contest all about turnout trying to get every single person out they can. these final hours, they have been making one case for the candidacies. we know that this is how we are going to get our country on track. remember, today is the day we make history. i am running on your issues and family issues to turn this country around. here is what is interesting. you did not see trump, right? he
Desantis is feeling loose, relaxed, and in his words, ready to roll. Hes going to cross the state with his final Events Today before the caucuses start this evening. It has been interesting to see his closing message. Last night, i was with him at an event just outside of des moines, iowa. We saw him zero in on the former president , on donald trump. He only mentioned Nikki Haley once by name but really directly going after the former president. You said it. Nobody has more on the line in iowa than governor Ron Desantis. He has put so much time and resources into this state, really hoping that at the end of it, he would emerge as the trump alternative. We have seen Nikki Haley with that momentum and we are watching the Battle Likely For Second Place play out but it means a lot to the Ron Desantis campaign if he comes in second. If he comes in third, what is that mean going forward as you
think identify. if you go back to constitution, you build that belief system from there. let s go hallie. i guess you re getting from the cruz campaign a sense of strategy against donald trump. what would that be, hallie? i think we ve seen it already, guys. we ve seen it in some of the responses that ted cruz has had to donald trump s early attacks against him at least the pre-debates. we ve been talking about that flash dance tweet. another one last night. that shows you where ted cruz head is. right now he s feeling loose, in the moment, he wants to come out and be likeable and funny. it depends on what kind of tone you see from donald trump. if donald trump comes out maybe in a way trump has where he s not turning both barrels on ted cruz but a wink, wink, nudge, nudge, you would see cruz respond in kind. other part there s also a sense that this is the first time ted cruz will be on this national
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