Thank you all very much. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington, a happening place today, because here in washington as well, Bernie Sanders. Hes taking a break from campaigning in iowa just five days before the caucus for a private meeting with president obama. Only the second that he has had since obama took office. This comes after the president lavishly praised Hillary Clinton in an interview with politico. Meanwhile, donald trump is spending yet another day grabbing headlines for announcing his plans to skip tomorrow nights fox debate. Lets join our team on the trail in des moines, iowa, nbcs Hallie Jackson following ted cruz, msnbcs kasie hunt sticking with the Sanders Campaign, msnbcs Kristen Welker outside of des moines, iowa, with Hillary Clinton, hosting a get out the caucus event at this moment. First, donald trump, is this the right play, wrong play, too early to say . Reporter too early to say, andrea. At this point, it could go one of two ways for donald tru
Donald trumps face and spray tan. Donald trump made fun of rubios sweatiness and big ears. Senator ted cruz alleged ties between donald trump and the mob. Donald trump said a judge in a lawsuit he was involved in was hostile to him because the judge is hispanic. Trump also retweeted a quote by mussolini and defended doing so. Trump seemed to have a hard time sunday morning disavowing the support of david duke, the grand wizard of the kkk. Will you unequivocally condemn david duke and say you dont want his vote or that of other white supremists in this election . Just so you understand, i dont know anything about david duke, okay . I dont know what youre talking about with White Supremacy or white supremacists. The question from the Antidefamation League is, even if you dont know about their endorsement, there are these groups and individuals endorsing you, would you just say, unequivocally, you condemn them and dont want their support . Well, i have to look at the group. I dont know wh
And for that crucial debate tonight ahead of the next round of super tuesday voting. We are going to have a big i think were going to be a fantastic week. At this point our campaign has beaten donald trump not once, not twice, not three times, but eight separate times. Anyone tells you, oh, marco rubio is getting out you tell them you heard it from me, they are lying to you. You knock them out. If you knock him out nothing can happen. You want to go for a knockout. Id rather go for a knockout. When the Opposition Union nice donald loses. Everybody that has hit me has gone down. It is true we havent done as well in some of those states as we wanted to but its going to come down to florida for me. The only guy who can beat donald trump is ted cruz. I dont have any steaks to sell. I dont know whether you noticed or not but i refuse to get down in the mud to be elected president of the United States. Okay . Do you pledge that on tuesday you will go and we will make America Great again and
Grabs in republican answers winner take all. And right now it is all about donald trump. He leaves the three most recent major polls by wide margins here in florida and of course this is marco rubios home state. Remember, he is a sitting u. S. Senator from here. And then over in ohio, tuesdays other big prize where john kasich serves as governor, trump leads in two of these recent polls. That may be surprising considering a wall street journal poll which shows 25 of voters nationwide have a favorable opinion compared to 64 unfavorable. That the largest our poll has ever seen for a prominent candidate. A safe bet president obama is one of those with an unfavorable opinion. During joint fuse conference with canadian prim minister, he slammed donald trump and two other candidates by name. In fact in terms of his positions on a whole range of issues, they arent very different from any of the other candidates. It is not as if there is a massive difference between mr. Trumps position on immi
By a mile. He came in with 51 of the vote. Second place was a very distant ron paul. Ron paul came in second with only 14 of the vote. Awkwardly even though ron paul only got 14 of the vote, that was enough to give ron paul supporters a tow hold that they used that year to hijack the nominating prosays and take over the party to a point where the whole Nevada State Republican Convention was shut down and replaced with a back room Conference Call where they picked their delegates instead. It should have been a sign. We should have known with that first contest in 2008 that nevada was going to be more than meets the eye. Any way, the bottom line, that first one mitt romney won. Second one, mitt romney won. The second one was in 2012. In 2012 it was a volatile moment when nevada was having its caucus. Mitt romney won for day and the Republican Party said it was a tie and they said Rick Santorum won and ultimately ron paul got the delegates. Iowa was a contested mess in 2012 and came New H