warmth of their homes, the tv ad numbers and streaming ad numbers in general are off the charts. according to the sec filings, super pac filings have been four times what it was in 2016. i want to play what some iowans have been saying. she made a joke. desantis has become a joke. don t believe a thing nikki haley says. ron desantis, losing and lying. haley even opposed trump s wall. haley disparages the caucuses and insults you. according to a politico analysis, $85 million in tv ads since the start of 2023 in a state with just under 2 million reg stert voters. what did they get, mark, for all that money? not a lot. that used to be my job in the presidential campaigns. i would always say at this point, in some place like iowa or new hampshire, it s great to be a tv station.
evangelical in the past. if trump can galvanize that voting bloc, it could really bode, if he wins here, sort of explain a little bit of how he is going to do across the state. i mentioned all of those folks said they were still undecided. a number of them said leaning towards trump. i was talking to an independent caucus-goer here who says he supports nikki haley, but not enough to go out and caucus for her. he s hearing from folks who maybe don t support donald trump but are nervous about saying that out loud, so seems to think that the polling may not bare out when folks go and write that name on that secret ballot tonight in the caucus room. we will certainly be watching closely for any signs of that. priscilla thompson, thank you. up next, new developments in defense secretary lloyd austin s health. what the pentagon is saying. a car ramming attack in israel leaves one dead and 17 injured. we ll take you there after the break. you re watching chris jansing
there may be only two. if nikki haley is at a close third or surprises with a second place or strong second place showing, that could propel her into new hampshire where she has a lot of momentum right now. the person with the most upside for tonight is really nikki haley. the problem is she s the good news for haley, she s consolidating the anti-trump out there. the bad news is there s not much anti-trump vote. in conditions as brutal as they are right now, i d prefer to have people who have done this before. kathy, with a field so small, iowa is not going to force a bunch of candidates out this year. but you have long experience in this state. i wonder what is iowa s role likely to be when we look back on 2024? what are you looking for tonight? well, first of all, we have lost a lot of candidates. we started this race with more
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example. we ll be looking at those 42 counties that went huckabee 08, sanitorium 12, cruz 16. sioux county, northwest iowa, this was trump s worst county in the state in 2016, only got 11% of the vote here. there s a lot of talk about how since iowa in 2016 trump has built a bond with evangelical voters. the polls show that. we want to show what that looks like in a county like this. conversely, from ron desantis standpoint, if he s going to pull off any kind of surprise here he s talking about in that interview, he s really going hard after the evangelical vote in iowa. those 42 counties that the evangelical vote has loomed largest in in the last three elections, he s got to show it in those places, like sioux county, those counties that went for cruz, huckabee, santoru