Found had they been unable or unwilling to make an argument that makes them a serious threat to trump. I mean that is that is the big point here, that what theyre doing is not working. I mean, if you look at where they are spending their money on television, i believe the two of them are now approaching 40 Million in Negative Ads against each other compared to 1 Million in ads against trump. And you have haley somewhat dialled up her criticism of trump at the Cnn Debate a couple nights ago but has reverted back to her very valued judgmentfreeway of talking about him. Chaos follows him rightly or wrongly. This would be a good result for her. It would show she has filled the Space Desantis left open by trying to run to trumps right. But ultimately i think as you are suggesting, it suggests it says to her as clearly as to desantis that if they are going to make this a race, they have
Point, and maybe you can talk me off the ledge here, but it seems to me that these Poll Numbers kind of reflect the reality that a lot of people have been talking about. And that is these other nontrump candidates they just have not really gone after him in any sort of normal conventional way that weve seen in campaigns past. And are we seeing the End Result of that reflected in these numbers . Well, im not going to talk you off the ledge. I think im going to push you off the ledge. Whats going on here is that Donald Trump is giving the republican party what it wants, and this ultimately isnt about Donald Trump, its about the party. And there really is not a market for a nontrump candidate. Chris christie went out and proved that. Asa hutchinson is still proving it. The party wants to be where trump is. I cant imagine working for a candidate in a race, running
That sort of threshold as to how strong trump is doing. Hes benefitting from this again. He is. And the fact is in 2015 and 16 The Field was separating the vote by 6 or 8 candidates. Now its just three candidates, but its still the same effect. They are splitting the vote. Jim, as we take a deeper look into the numbers here also some interesting findings here. 68 of respondents of this poll say their minds are made up. 25 say they can still be persuaded. And this rereally reflects our conversations with voters on the ground here in iowa. They are trying to make up their minds. If theyre not with the former president and theyre considering haley or desantis, they are really trying to weigh this. I ran into several voters on friday excuse me, thursday, who attended both events who are trying to weigh their options. What this poll can do is show haley has a bit of juice here and change peoples minds. One poll 82 of trump supporters
With less than 48 hours before the iowa caucuses, were just getting highly anticipated final Des Moines register poll. Any political junky knows how important this poll is. Cnns Jeff Zeleny with the results of the poll known for its accuracy. Jeff, what do you have . Do we have the numbers yet . We do, jim, and every campaign is watching this Des Moines register iowa poll, which does have a historical pretty good average of showing what will happen on monday night. It certainly shows the trajectory of campaigns. And there is news ibthis. Donald trump is still leading this field quite dramatically at 48 in this poll, which is down slightly from last month. But second place now is nikki haley. Shes vaulted over florida governor Ron Desantis whos at 16 in this poll. Lets go through the numbers again. Donald trump, 48 , nikki haley, 20, and Ron Desantis at 16 . So going into the final hours of this Caucus Campaign here, this
Pollsters call the maybe trump voters who are basically in favor to him but are open to an alternative in part because his style rubs them the wrong way. Shell have a period of time leading into South Carolina to kind of make that case. But i think if we dont see more from her between now and new hampshire, which is the ideal terrain if she is going to turn up her argument against trump, were probably never going to see it. And so the clock really is ticking for both of them to see if they can make this anything more turbulent than effectively a Glide Path to coronation for the former president. Yeah, it doesnt have anything to do with the cold. This may be a bit of a frozen field in terms of where the numbers are. When you were saying when Nikki Haley she could go potentially after donald trump a bit more in the coming days. Jeff zeleny, before we go to break, she has said just in recent days if im not mistaken shes just not going to do that. She has said along the lines of people hav