experience going over the next five days to your point about what may or may not move these votersno based on what they saw tonight? reporter: i think that you have to consider iowa as a place that is still trump country. i mean nikki haley is not coming in here and saying she s going to beat trump. not even desantis is really saying that anymore, though he did put all his eggs in the iowa basket, so to speak. with iowa voters, though, they want to be spoken to. the ones that i met still undecided are actively listening to candidates coming out to events. this is trump country. there s an immovable block of people still going to come out and caucus for the former president.or caucuses, okay, are things that award enthusiasm and confidence and energy behind the president because it requires sitting in gyms or other large spaces and other members of your community to cajole and caucus and all be together for several hours. at the same time, i do think there s an opening for someone
a stage where it s not eight people talking to each other, you sort of hope for a more substantive discussion, maybe you ll hit a few policy points. instead this was an all-out slugfest. the thing i noticed immediately right off the bat you had desantis going off with mealy-mouth and haley pointing out the way he s scondered tens of millions in his presidential bid only to end up second or third in the state that he laid his hopes on, which is iowa. the attacks were done almost in buzz words because all these attack ads have already been on the air waves in places like iowa, in places like new hampshire. we ve heard these criticisms between the candidates on the debate stage before. there were moments there were so many disparate attack lines, it was hard to follow along. the fact you didn t have a commercial break for first 50
hampshire all the time. no matter how decided somebody thinks they are, you know, the day before the election, don t be surprised if they change their mind as they re walking into that voting booth. you know, there are more undecided voters sometimes than what the polls really show. i think some of those votes are going to go to trump. you know, as for the first question the, oh, gosh, i m so sorry she had to remind me what it was no, it is late. if there s anything that happen on that debate stage with desantis and haley that would change someone s mind? i would say unequivocally no. nothing happened today that is going to affect the election, either the caucus, in my opinion, or new hampshire. and so far i don t think it will change south carolina either. i was talking to some folks in south carolina and new hampshire during the debate as we were all kind of watching it together. i said to one of my friends in
happened in this debate and the town hall with donald trump that is going to fundamentally move the needle. in amo week out from iowa you r looking for a big shift, the proverbial bomb if you will, show up strong. and i don t think either one of them did. they show up small, and i did not see a president on that debate stage. i agree. that is the key thing because in the last three debates, well, actually all the prior debates nikki haley to me came off as the most presidential. nicky hilly to her credit she tried today come out with this generational shift argument she wanted to make,on and desantis kept pulling her back, and pulling her back to the point she just became so exasperated with him. and that s the bite she had with her.