including the weather right now. it is here. decision day in iowa. good afternoon. i am erin burnett in washington. i am in new york. we want to welcome you to live coverage of the iowa caucuses. we are counting down to the official start of the first contest in the republican presidential race. we want to confuse people. washington, you are in new york. everybody, get ready. the battle for iowa taking place against those record cold temperatures we have been talking about. some places in iowa, the real feel temperature is 35 below zero, which has not stopped the candidates in a contest all about turnout trying to get every single person out they can. these final hours, they have been making one case for the candidacies. we know that this is how we are going to get our country on track. remember, today is the day we make history. i am running on your issues and family issues to turn this country around. here is what is interesting. you did not see trump, right? he
Rogue, where would that leave him . Which he did in georgia. Weve seen it. Right. Weve seen this before. And look, i think hes already, to your point, jamal, i think he has already begun doing a little bit of this with nikki haley. He hasnt given her a nickname, but he has begun floating around the Birther Theory like he did with obama, very effectively in some corners against nikki haley. I was just texting with david kochel, who you mentioned earlier. He has done 40 years of iowa caucuses, worked on six president ial campaigns. His prediction is trump under 50, which is a bad night for trump, if thats the case. And Haley Squeaking past desantis. Momentum beats mechanics. And to me what was interesting, the two desantis surrogates weve had on the air since weve been on, the donor and his Campaign Managers both alluded to Ron Desantis did in florida 100 of what he promised