way, in william weld, attend the state fair, speak at that soap box. this is an excellent opportunity for the hand-to-hand retail campaigning that we know joe biden loves well. iowa, of course, the early caucus, first in the nation caucus is all about organizing and it takes a lot of effort to get yourself all over the state, to different communities to begin to build that support well, there are going to be 1.1 million people who go through the turnstiles, many from every corner of the iowa. this is really fish in a barrel moment for these candidates and an important one.
you carry yourself really matters. as it should to an iowa audience. absolutely. there s one reason that we re going to see two dozen presidential candidates, including one republican by the way, in william weld, attend the state fair, speak at that soap box. this is an excellent opportunity for the hand-to-hand retail campaigning that certainly we know joe biden loves well. iowa, of course, the early caucus, first in the nation caucus is all about organizing and it takes a lot of effort to get yourself all over the state, to different communities to begin to build that support well, there are going to be 1.1 million people who go through the turnstiles that i did today, from every corner in iowa. this is really fish in a barrel moment for these candidates and an important one. we saw, i think, if joe biden could run for president every day like he did yesterday in delivering what he felt was the sort of presidential moment type speech focused on the president, but also a moment like
supremacy, to kind of the part of it at the state fair is eating pork chops on a stick, michael. yeah. look, it s an unfortunate pairing of kind of moments. the fair is very light-hearted and the rest of this week has been anything but. i think for the most part, though, the candidates recognize that unless something goes viral, as heather said, the attention being paid to what they do at the iowa state fair is largely in iowa. that s what the retail campaigning in iowa is all about. it s connecting to iowans in this very odd way that presidential politics works in that state. it s a caucus. they have to sort of connect with them on a personal level and the iowa state fair is part of that. but i think they re hoping that that sort of what happens in iowa stays in iowa kind of thing and they can move on. hoping to survive their soap box moments, here are a few from
donald trump. so you saw the vice president with a brief but very direct response to the president. i think we ll continue to hear more from him. he s going to be speaking at the soapbox in a couple hours, doing what he loves to do which is that retail campaigning. i predict there will be a lot of ice cream and selfies. this is a biden campaign a week after that feisty democratic debate. and perhaps a few butter cow sculptures and pork on a stick. we inveyenvy you out there. we all know that mike is doing more eating perhaps than reporting. because he s mike, he s doing more reporting. but robert, what about the president s take on all this? yesterday he had an opportunity to change the narrative, follow up on his teleprompered speech from monday and change the way he is viewed in these
coming from the monmouth poll, what i found interesting, joe biden is on top. but look at the difference between early states versus other states. and you can see that lead going back down by about 10 percentage points. also here kamala harris neck and neck here with bernie sanders. yeah, and that should be expected because that is where people have been spending their time in early voting states. so i m not surprised joe biden actually has not gone out and done a lot of retail campaigning. he is mostly raising money right now. so those results don t surprise me too much. and they kind of they are on track to what we ve seen a lot of other polling meaning that senators harris and warren are moving up in the polls.