In third place, that does not bode well for his future. I think vivek will be interesting to see. His people seem to be fired up. Organized and caucus, there could be a surprise. It wag was interesting to see trump turn his fire is on vivek. Steve shooting inside the same tent. They are not in the same tent they are close. They are pretty much in the same tent. Pete, good luck tonight. Good to see you steve. Coming up live from Des Moines after nearly a year of campaign visits, its time to do some deciding about 13 hours from right now. But what does the Iowa Caucus Process look like . Pete just mentioned it. Were going to take you through it stepbystep. Plus, we have the big guests of the day. Ron desantis, vivek ramaswamy, and Nikki Haley will all join me live right here in Des Moines. And this is a live look at dispoin right now where it is 1. Thats the gold capital dome. It is 35 degrees below zero
his campaign though has a new more targeted focus, highlighted by sanders himself attending small issue-based forums in town halls and field staff organizing caucus goers around issues like health care. i ve had cancer before, and health care is very important. i have a pre-existing condition bassically. reporter: the sanders team is focusing on voters like sally who may not have been part of the iowa caucus process, but have been inspired by the sanders message because of a personal experience. it s not the first time a campaign has made turning out new caucus goers a key part of its eye eiowa strategy. it worked well for barack obama in 2008. but the 2020 model is a political leap of faith. is it a gamble for you to do it this way? if we re not willing to take risks and expand the electorate, then you re right. it is a gamble. but the senator has always been someone willing to gamble a bit
they re vulnerable and that s a real problem that i think will have to get sorted out in the next several months during the iowa caucus process. i think we re just going to see a lot of moving around. our top three candidates i think have significant weaknesses in a general election. that s really got to be pointed out. bill: you are fighting for oxygen yourself. here are the candidates who qualified for the debate in october. you are not çone of them. i don t know if you can turn this around or not. i m certain you are here to tell us you can. however, you seem to have a more moderate voice. when you think about the green new deal, medicare for all. trillion dollar plans on behalf of so many candidates, is there room for a moderate voice such as yours in this party? i don t think there is any question there is because that s where most of the american people are. and i think that s what i m saying is going to happen in this process before the iowa caucus. i think the good democr
in the nation event. i ll tell you something, i am a big fan of the iowa caucus process. i think the people of iowa understand the oversized role they play in the american political process. and they take it seriously. so i suspect there are many many thousands of people who will go to my rallies and events. other candidates rallies and size up the candidates. think about the issues and try to decide which candidate best reflects their views. that s impressive. i think it s fair to say that no candidate placed an earlier bet or bigger bet on iowa. how do you feel about the system here? i don t think of this so much as about politics as i do about a chance to meet with people. so i ve had a lot of chances, for example, here in rural iowa to talk about folks about what it means to lose the local hospital. um-hum. that s a way to almost rip the heart out of a community, because it means young families are not very likely to move in.
which would get you the iowa home game. it doesn t necessarily get you the nomination. people don t chant we re number 6. no one predicted, including in the barack obama race, who would win in august. we ll see some of the candidates they didn t know as well, some of the candidates that come from states that aren t as big. and that s where we re headed. i would rather not peak early. i would rather peak closer to the caucuses. even in the most current polling, you were living down there in asterisk land, among 24 candidates. you can t win the nomination if you don t win here, can you? well, i think i need to be among the top in iowa. the top what? top three or four. you remember being here with barack obama. maybe he was, i don t know, 10, 15%. yes. but it was this state that actually was where he gelled. really it boils down to iowa