the trump/desantis battle evolved into a schoolyard brawl. you don t change your name in the middle of the election. his whole family moved to florida under my governorship. are you kidding me? what is the desantis plan to convince voters he s not just a better nominee but a better president. plus the gop field keeps growing. three more candidates will jump in this week including trump s former vp. republicans have to offer a positive vision grounded in conservative principles. but how many of them will make it to the republican debate stage? and disaster averted. no one got everything wanted but the american people got what they needed. the president said it is proof his brand of politics still works. i know bipartisanship is hard but we could never stop trying. welcome to inside politics sunday , i m abby phillip. thank you for joining. it is all about iowa, iowa. and yesterday marks the first start of the caucus season with eight presidential hopefuls
in. he s certainly trying and so is his wife. and we re seeing all of the candidates trying in iowa, there are two things to remember their important. one is that it is a caucus state. it is not a primary. we re talking about polling. what the general republican base wants. would turns out for a caucus is even more specific and concentrated than who turns out for a primary election. and the other is that evangelical voters historically have been so pivotal in iowa. two-thirds of the turnout almost last time out. and you mentioned casey desantis. there is a lot of talk from both of them about their kids. listen to this. we re literally just in a drive-thru just sitk there and shes had to go and i will take her inside and just come so we go in and we get in there and ai was like, here you go and she just shaked her head and i m like, what. she s like, little potty. little potty. i m like, they don t have little potty in slim chickens. as a dad who is trying to