Florida Governor Ron Desantit Trump Today for not being here in iowa while the other top gop candidates are crisscrossing the Street And State trying to reach as many Caucus Goers as possible and speaking of government desantis, im going to send it over to Bill Melugin whos covering all things desantis. I am Bill Melugin and West Des moines, multiple Campaign Events in Iowa Today despite freezing temperatures, supporters can do think the state all day long and that includes desantis his own mom, she came from florida knocking on doors in 2 degrees weather. Heres a little of what the Floor Governor said a short time ago. People realized this country needs leadership and we cant just rerun the 2020 election so heres the thing. You will never have an opportunity to participate and vote in a way that will pack as much punch monday night
Pushing voters to still turn out tomorrow, clearly concerned about the effect it could have. Nikki haley and Ron Desantis are hoping for momentum from tomorrows caucuses. Donald trump hoping it is the beginning of the end for at least one of them. Our team of reporters has been following the candidates across iowa today. Kristen holmes, kylie atwood, jessica dean. Weve got all of them here covering all of the candidates. I want to start with kristen holmes, who is covering the Trump Campaign for us. Kristen, weve seen the former president. He has spent probably less time in iowa than the other candidates here. He is still setting big expectations for voters tomorrow. What has been his Closing Message to iowans. Kaitlan, his Closing Message is please show up on monday and caucus. Its about winning by a margin that is big enough to stop the momentum of his gop rivals, namely nikki haley. They want to set the tone with a wide enough margin, a big enough, definitive enough lead, so that it
Another Arctic Blast comes in thursday and friday. All eyes On Iowa today. Right now it feels like Minus 29 in spencer, iowa, feeling like 35 below in mason city, 25 below zero in ford dodge. Des moines feels like 27 below zero. Were talking really dangerous temperatures. Were not going to improve as we go throughout the day. Jesse mentioned the winds. Were seeing winds gusting from 2030 miles per hour. As we go through the afternoon, still looking at temperatures in the single digits. Windchill Minus 32 in ford dodge later this afternoon, Minus 34 in Waterloo And Minus 33 in des moines. This will be tough not only today, tomorrow. We moderate a little on wednesday before we get the second Arctic Blast by thursday. This Cold Air is setting the stage for snow. Jesse showed us that where he is. The ohio valley, were looking at temperatures frigid in texas, they are not used to that
A number of surrogates, republicans are fanned out across iowa today. He did hold a Rally Yesterday and will watch Election Results in des moines. Over the weekend he attacked Vivek Ramaswamy telling voters he is not maga. He is trying to break History Tonight with 50 of the vote. All candidates, especially Nikki Haley says they are not going anywhere, theyll be in New Hampshire next. Harris. Harris thank you. Mollie, lee carter, the Polling Expert said two things going on for Nikki Haley. She found 43 of her supporters would vote for joe biden. She says she is locked up never trumper vote
With qualifying internet. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im Wolf Blitzer along with john berman. Its Caucus Day in iowa. Were seeing final pitches, lastminute endorsements and frigid temperatures. Were hours away of getting some answers to huge questions. Who will come out on top in the race for second place . Will the results push any candidates to simply drop out . And can they survive the cold . The weather might be the biggest story in iowa today. That could affect turnout, Peoples Willingness to get out the door and go to the caucus