yeah, you can hear. this is the beat with ari melber, where one week at official voting of 2024, launch of these presidential primaries. candidates already barnstorming iowa this weekend. you re seeing just some of what happened on your screen. and for many reasons, these first few primary states at the pivotal and possibly last test of the republican party deciding whether to bring its trump passed into the future. nikki haley, trying to emerge as the one alternative to trump, arguing voters can get mugshot without trump chaos. by just picking her. i agree with a lot of his policies. he was really good at breaking things. he just wasn t good at fixing them. and now, we look at the fact, rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. chaos follows him. and that may sound like a pretty team contrast that she s drawing, but trump views haley now as his main possible threat. an establishment hack of sorts. trump s pivot toaley after months of unrelenting attacks against desantis
trying to use this iowa caucus a week from tonight and the upcoming primaries to stop trump. and thinking a little more like whitecliff in the same song, those who fake, they break. jail bars and golden gates when they meet their 400 pound mate. so yes, america, it is ready or not tonight. the party can stop trump in iowa and new hampshire if it wants to. this would be the time. and that s the candidate level debate. i ve basically given you the cliff notes, haley on the rise, trump even acknowledging her, well over on the ground, we can see how iowa, which has all this history, is mixing old-school traditions with some very new platforms. we ve been tracking all of this. i told you we were gonna keep an eye on voters and what they say and do, however they choose to do it, and many voters right now are engaging on this relatively new site that s proved to be more popular now than google. we re talking about iowa politics meets tiktok. the more iowans want a candidate that they re con