it s one a. m. here in new york, midnight in iowa, and a very first test of the 2024 republican primary season is now complete. joining me now at the top of this hour, former obama campaign manager, msnbc political analyst, and my former boss david plouffe, former rnc chairman and co-host of the weekend, michael steele, former communications director for jeb bush 2016 campaign, and now writer at large for the bulwark tim miller, and former communications director for president obama jennifer palmieri. now, tonight in iowa, nbc news projected that donald trump won the caucuses with more than 50% of the vote. his numbers really cement the four-time indicted candidate status as the front-runner. we already knew this. but in the republican field, the race for second place, it had a bit more drama with nikki haley and florida governor ron desantis locked in a dead heat for most of the night. but as awkward as he may be at times, and he is awkward, desantis did put in the w
do anything, where the other side could do anything. they can t do that right now. so we re in a great position to negotiate something really, really good. and most people, i think, really respect what we did. now, i will say, every once the a while i watch somebody say i did more for abortion, on abortion and abortion rights and pro life, i did more than trump. well, only stupid people would say that because everyone said there was no way that roe v wade was going to disappear. but because because it was very unfair. the other thing people wanted to bring it back to the states. i consider that less important but nevertheless a lot of people wanted to bring it back. this brings it back to the states. sean: more with donald trump and we ll hear from our iowa audience as we continue from the great state of iowa.in please stadiy with us. pres. trump: thank you. en she s been looking for. sotyktu is the first-of-its-kind, once-daily pill for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis for th
he reportedly thanked attendees for support following the death of his son telling them i came because beau would want me to come. there was no mention of a potential candidacy. you might have new reporting to add on this. certainly his jstop on the weekend keeps the narrative going that he s running. he s very interesting in running f you re the vice president and looking at this poll, you re finding it pretty encouraging. his numbers doubled from may. and you see hillary clinton s numbers dropping 20% from may. that shows that there is potentially an opening for him. we had a story today that looked at the electoral map in the first four early states for him. it still looks very tough. if he were to get into this race, hillary clinton has a massive head start in iowa in, new hampshire. bernie sanders is gaining traction. it s not exactly clear what the vice president s constituency