when we get this done can you go out there and bring it home? tomorrow night we caucus and win the primary and we win the general. bill: the stage is set. first votes in the 2024 election will be tallied hours from now. tonight in iowa voters get their first verdict on the republican presidential field when they go to caucus. we ve waited a long time for this one, right? it s finally here. w welcome to a frigid iowa. i m bill hemmer. great to kick it off with you. all right. let s go. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. it s cold outside, warm inside. the iowans are saying what are you complaining about? we ll be fine. if they re not worried maybe we shouldn t be worried for voter turnout. the coldest in history, frigid weather and a wild card that could maybe have a major impact on turnout. the candidates will make their final pitches today across the state to deliver last-minute bids to win over voters. all pockets of the hawkeye state could hold
Well talk to leaders about that. The darker the county the heavier the influence. Missouri border, who gets that . Ron desantis eat into that . Does Donald Trump do better than he did four years ago . Up here in the western half of the state where you find a lot of evangelicals in the northwest corner. These four counties have picked the winner, Ted Cruz in 2016. Rick santorum in 2012. Picked Mike Huckabee in 2008. All four of them. Well oh he see how they break down tonight. Collegeeducated women. If Nikki Haley will finish that surprise strong second finish this is where she will be looking. Des moines, polk county. To the west dallas county. Over here along the Mississippi River toward there university of iowa. Thats johnson county. She will be looking in that area. Rubio did well four years ago
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Give me a moment. Lets go down to some of the rural counties along the missouri border. Eight years ago Ted Cruz did very well. Donald trump had a Mix And Match throughout that contest. It was evangelicals. Maybe they werent sure of donald trump. What were his positions . How would he govern . We only have a taste of that here in the south. The reason i point this out is because you are at 18 . Trump is just below 70 with 52 raw votes reported. Now i will try something. I will go back in time and see for the moment with 18 of the vote in. I know its early. Lets go back in time and c8 years ago how this ended up. Trump is in red, crews and Blue Carson in yellow on this map. Trump was the winner by a Grand Total of 23 raw votes which computes to 2. 7 percentage points in up a news county
28 counties only have one location to go and caucus. That could mean a long drive for those folks. I understand the super site was planned before we knew what the weather was going to look like. But is that a good idea . Are you worried about Peoples Safety . Well, ultimately, that is the decision of each one of the county committees. As the republican party of iowa, we aggregate that data. The decisions whether you have a super site or multiple sites, which majority have multiple sites. We have one county on the Missouri Border that has, i believe, over 13 different sites. So, as long as theres not ice on those roads, iowans know those precautions. They know how to handle that. Were giving advice to all of our chairs, trying to make sure the lines are inside as theyre moving through. Obviously people can register at that particular site to be a republican. I feel comfortable with where were going right now. And remember, this is this is