former president donald trump canceling three out of four in-person events weekend due to the freezing cold weather and blizzard warnings, opting for virtual rallies instead. welcome to fox news live, i m griff jenkins. joey: i m jacqui heinrich. this is all happening as ron desantis and nikki haley continue duking it out for their battle for a distant second place. we have fox team coverage, we will start with grady trimble who s braving the weather there in des moines. hey, grady. reporter: hey, jackie. former president trump was supposed to have a busy weekend here in iowa, but as griff noted, he canceled a few of his events. one of them though is still on for tomorrow. all of the campaigns kind of scrambling because of this cold and snowy weather we ve been experiencing. take a look at the latest polling here in iowa. it shows the former president with a commanding lead. former south carolina governor nikki haley gaining some ground but still way behind trump. at his
former president trump for not being here in iowa while the other candidates are, but it s clear that his support in iowa is strong. now he s just trying to get out the vote is, get caucus goers to their caucus places on monday. now i m going to send it over to my colleague aishah hasnie who is smarter than i reporting from inside today. [laughter] reporter: that s right, grady, thank you very much. we are at smitty s, a very popular spot to talk politics and eat lunch, and you can see behind me people are here, so they re braving the weather. they re getting out, they re grabbing lunch and talking politics. now let s talk former governor nikki haley. she is physically back on the trail out there in cedar falls earlier this morning, now headed to iowa city. she had to replace all her in-person events yesterday, guys, to telephone town halls instead because of the dang weather. haley is surging in iowa though, second now in that suffolk if university poll grady just mentioned, about 8