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
Comes out today and says nope. I am switching. I am switching to initiate nikki haley. What you take away from something like that happening at this moment . I think we are starting to see people look at the reality on the ground. I have never been personally inspired by Ron Desantis but that is okay. The issue is that voters are right now. One thing that is been striking me is that donald trump is permitted to say and do absolutely anything. With Ron Desantis, he has been meter to eight Dragon Queen at hamburger marys then to donald trump. I think tonight is trump. Trump has the hass expectations. People talking about he could reach 60 tonight. I think it will be interesting to see if he does that but i think it is telling to me that people are starting to say what a lot of us have already been thinking. Ron desantis does not have it. Whatever that is, that is what