republican candidate you would caucus for. none of you are about to switch to the democrats. but none of you had decided which candidate, a couple have, but now everyone is ready to caucus. raise your hand if you are ready to caucus for ron desantis? raise your hand if you re ready to caucus for nikki haley? one to? raise your hand if you are ready to caucus for donald trump? one, two, three, four. is there any other candidate that anyone else here will caucus for? who did not raise their hand? three of you? you aren t going to caucus? it s supposed to be like 30 below windchill on monday, you re not going? i m kidding. wouldn t you raise your chant? i m not decided. who are you thinking between? trump and desantis. how do you make your decision between now on monday? i don t know. i don t know. what about you? i m stuck between trump, and desantis. we will just see how it goes, i guess. the feeling that i get on
the internationalists, the more traditional positions on entitlements. all the data tell us the trump wing of the party is not only strong but strengthening. all these house republicans, all these other candidates around the country, she s trying to essentially say, if you want your old republican party back, iowa, you go first on monday, new hampshire follows. you don t want to stop trump biden, forget about it. we re going to be talking to florida governor ron desantis shortly. let s go to kaitlan, in new york. thanks, anderson. we have got our panel. alyssa,, as we watch this debate play, out donald trump was not on that stage. that was the one thing ron desantis and nikki haley, agreed on. he should be on that stage. but neither of them really sought to draw a contrast with trump in a meaningful way. there was this one moment we re jake and dana we re asking him about trump s terminate the constitution and how they felt about. it this is how nikki haley responded to the quest
would not under any circumstances and that. and i think the fact is not done that is part of the recent course had been staying in and i think that s part of the reason he s had the choice words. do you think she d agree to be vice president? i do. because what would you not to say i would not? i ve said i would not. what not just say that. she will not give a yes or no answer to that because if she says he is, she loses support from the people that don t buy trump. if it has, know that for causes, potentially, her ability and you say, categorically, you would not serve as vice president? the reason is, a couple reasons. one, i can do more for florida and the country, serving as president, but i could do more for florida and the country servant the last two years as governor then being vice president. that s just, what did i say? a bucket of warm something, not good for tv. it s not a job you re ready to anything. in the on the reason i m in office is to accomplish things f
they are unable, i think it s the candida spend the time on what they are going to deliver. they won t spend all of their time trying to do the trump question, and all of that sort of thing. i know it gets headlines, but they are there to earn the trust, and the votes, specifically, of the iowa voters. this is effectively a neck and neck raced. i know desantis said he s gonna win, trump said he s gonna win, they all have high expectations. they don t quite have the expectations on haley said, but she s doing incredibly well, earning the votes, not worrying about what the other candidates do. i am not surprised by this at all. nikki took on trump, i think, pretty strong, talk about january 6th, about election denial in the debate tonight. there s no question where nikki stands, she s not playing for second place, she s playing to win, to bring this country together, and it s very clear where she stands on donald trump. it s not just that it gets headlines, governor, with all due respect
and they will be tough for each to beat the other. i think beyoncé and taylor swift don t want to be compared to either of them, but we will be right back to have you finish that thought. everyone, stay there, because i do want to welcome our viewers who may just be joining us tonight. it is now midnight here in new york, 11 pm in des moines where anderson is. we are less than five days out from the iowa caucuses. the final republican presidential debate before those first votes are cast are now on the books. ron desantis, nikki haley, the only to making the cut this time. donald trump, again, staying away, holding a town hall instead near by. for more on how all of this landed let s go to gary tuchman with a group of voters that we ve gotten to know throughout the campaign, as they spend debate nights together watching, and talking about it. gary, i know the gang is back, and assembled. the gang is back together, anderson. we watched all five of these republican debates, with t