grindavik, that s in southwestern iceland. they are evacuating in the face of nearby this follows a series of all small earthquakes and powerful eruptions last month. donald trump going after vivek ramaswamy, not over policy, rather rhetoric. actually not rhetoric, actually it s over a t-shirt. that story in just a moment. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with the very latest on the iowa caucus is now just one day away. five candidates on the home stretch braving frigid temperatures today, crisscrossing nine cities to convince voters to bundle up and go out in sub-zero temperatures at caucus time tomorrow night. in the new nbc des moines register media com poll confirms donald trump s dominant league and his supporters are bearing that out, facing down the elements to hear him speak today. in fact, nbc s vaughn hillyard has been talking to them about the determination to show up. i
exercise and a talking point for nikki haley, but not something they re particularly concerned about right now, which is winning the primaries and caucuses that it takes to actually get to be the person who takes on joe biden in november. point well taken there. dasha, desantis is planning to skip the traditional post iowa trip to new hampshire. he s going to head straight for south carolina. if he loses monday night, could we see him endorsing donald trump by the end of the week? it s a great question. without the benefit of a crystal ball, here is what i can tell you. the operatives that i ve spoken to have really complemented desantis s ground game here, they said his operation in iowa is probably the closest that a republican has come to rivaling obama s legendary 2008 iowa operation. they ve written books about that, right, which is a huge compliment. but because he s had this basically textbook operation here, he s gotten the right endorsements, governor kim reynolds, bob van
of his opponents. it is. and they see trump s iowa operation, they see someone who has this bus going to iowa parking lots and bringing in nontraditional voters. it will be a relatively quiet for monday and tuesday for trump. he s going on jury duty in manhattan. his campaign tells me, he ll continue to target new hampshire. on wednesday, trump s likely going to have an event there. they re also looking at south carolina. they think if this field is still crowded after iowa and new hampshire, they look at newt gingrich, 2012, running as the anti-media candidate. they think they can have a network there. they have a state rep, jim meryl, helping them out. so trump leaves iowa. when you say this was, by far, the biggest response you ve seen in your two cycles of covering presidential campaigns? it was a spectacle unlike anything i ve ever seen. but there is an interesting development behind the scenes can i write that down. a spectacle unlike anything i ve ever seen. it s lik
all. many of them turn us dound e down. when we ask dounnald trump, he says yes. okay, great. we would love it. but when you look at this as a reporter, i just talked to trump who s running trump s iowa operation. they have people across the state, 99 counties, people who usually right-hand tuaren t cau. if you take away the media celebrity, on the ground in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. believe me, he can get a bounce in iowa. maybe not win new hampshire. newt gingrich won it last time as a warrior against the media. the viability is a long way away. that s the only caution they say. so van carson follows trump with 14%, bumping scott walker to third place with 9%, ted cruz