strategy. we re going to bring you brand new reporting from inside the campaign. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start today with breaking news on who qualified for cnn s iowa debate next week. last before the caucuses. the deadline to meet the polling threshold just passed, and our political director david chalian joins me now. david, who made the cut? as you noted, the deadline just passed and actually the window of qualification started way back on october 15th. we now know that for the cnn january 10th debate, the three candidates who have qualified are former president trump, nikki haley and ron desantis. we also know that donald trump has not participated in any debate yet this cycle, and he doesn t intend on participating at the cnn debate on january 10th. that leaves haley and desantis on the stage, and that would be the smallest debate stage that we have seen to date. that means that they were the only candidates to hit 10%
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doesn t intend on participating at the cnn debate on january 10th. that leaves haley and desantis on the stage, and that would be the smallest debate stage that we have seen to date. that means that they were the only candidates to hit 10% support in three polls, iowa and national polls, going back to october 15th. no other candidate hit the 10% mark in any single poll of the 15 polls that fit into the qualification window. very interesting. thank you so much. appreciate that. nikki haley and ron desantis are spending millions in ads to pummel each other right now rather than attack the guy leading them by more than 30 points in iowa. we are in des moines following all the campaign developments. steve? reporter: that s right. if you look at the last several
happening there. you weathered hurricane maria, they re not on a major debate and the devastation it left two stage? what s important to remember, years ago. too, obviously being on the dorian is approaching. you heard how unpredictable it debate stage gives candidates visibility. we ve seen these very dramatic is. how are you, your friends and images in the first two debates family preparing right now? thank you, dana, for having changed the trajectory, thinking us here and for letting us kind back to the kamala/biden moment of express and focus on what s in the first debate particularly happening here. right now, i m in san juan, and as a point where senator harris the sun is still out. there s no wind. shined and gained traction for her race, but a key thing to but the city is kind of a ghost town right now, because everyone remember is that there is a is really taking this seriously. debate after the september debate. it comes in october. two years ago, we had a what s importan