made an extraordinary contribution to move this country toward being a more perfect union. the film rustin is streaming now on netflix. please watch it. it s great. audra mcdonald and aml ameen, so honored to have both of you here today. thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. hello on this monday. it is 10:00 eastern. happy caucus day. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes on iowa with the official start of the 2024 election season. republican candidates all making their final appeal to iowans ahead of tonight s gop caucuses. the caucuses will be called to order at 7:00 p.m. local time, 8:00 p.m. eastern. the vote will be held by secret ballot. our final nbc news des moines register poll shows donald trump maintaining his nearly 30-point lead over the rest of the field with a tight race for second place. one major and potentially dangerous obstacle stands in t
Iowa, platt, has endorsed desantis well see if that makes a difference when we finish caucus night. One dand hoping to surprise people in iowa, vivek ramaswamy. Supporters wearing tshirts that said save trump vote vivek. Trump took to truth social to Slam Ramaswamy this weekend for deceitful campaign tricks, telling him sly. Telling his supporters a vote for vivek is a vote for the other side. We havent seen Trump Pay much attention. Is Trump Right to worry ramaswamy could cut into his lead . Ramaswamy is a fetish candidate. He represents no threat to the nomination for trump. What i think he is learning is that famous adage that