a position that trump was in, you know, when he first ran. when he first ran for office in 2016 at the iowa caucus, i think ted cruz won dana: he did. but a lot of people were, like, trump? really? president? and however many month later, he won the election. so, i mean, i think it s anybody s game at this point, and somebody who doesn t have the political background like trump didn t at that stage dana: you think that vivek has a bright future regardless of what happens tomorrow night? absolutely. bill: don, i just want to complete9 the segment on what your view is if you were to get a conviction or all the i mean, he s in iowa, he s many new york city, okay? he s in iowa, soon he ll be in palm beach or atlanta, georgia. number one, everything they re doing to trump right now i really feel is taking the decision away from us as the american people, okay? number one. the elite few that are doing this whether it be the
iowa strategy? it contrasts significantly to desantis. it is cold in iowa. i don t think there are any closing arguments. i campaigned in iowa four years ago hopelessly against trump. at this point it is getting your people out. trump has a heck of an organization can desantis does too. donald trump this time has a great organization so i expect his people to come out. it is funny because we hear about his absence in iowa can it must mean he does not have the ground presence compared to nikki haley or desantis talking about going to all 90. what is his ground game? his campaign team has been there for months . you can see the difference with how they approach i/o at this time from how they did when he first ran. you can also see it in the
that s been there for months. you can really see the difference how they re approaching this iowa this time than when he first ran. you can also see it in, frankly, the polls. he s 30 points ahead, i think even more than that even if he hasn t been there as much as desantis has and they are paying attention because they are a bit worried. he s actually been visiting iowa more than he said he would. he is also running a ton of ads against haley at the beginning against desantis and so going into this weekend, i think that he s got the advantage because he also has the most dedicated voters, the most dedicated supporters. that is what you need when you have 30-degree below weather. 80 degrees below. i ve done a little comparison. look at the screen about how many times say governor desantis has been to iowa versus say trump and vivek
if you look at the polling, donald trump has 50%, around there, hatch the republican party. if there is just one republican going against him, is there a chance that that one republican, if it s nikki haley or ron desantis, has the chance to solidify all of the rest of the volt, and does it bring in some of the anti-trumpers who aren t voting in the republican primary any longer. i wonder if things are as concrete as we see them currently. on january 11th, 2024. yeah, the kids table dynamic that s existed in this primary i think has benefitted donald trump. if there was one credible alternative, i think the conversation would be entirely different. the problem is ron desantis and nikki haley both think they should be that alternative. chris christie until recently thought they should be that alternative. we have a smaller field than we did when he first ran. i think that s helpful, it s obviously still too big, and if there was a conversation, this is the person who is the
will have happened, super tuesday would have happened, getting into march and april and i was just looking at my home state, indiana, which was a decisive primary in 2016 when he first ran, when everyone started kind of giving up. in 2024 i think the primary date is may 7th is what i think i saw. so a lot of this is going to be wrapped in the lead up to this trial. yeah, it is, and so, look, i think, you know, probably we already know where any indictments that come down any more, any further acts legally probably is going to help donald trump in the primary. that doesn t mean it s going to help him in the national election, but in the primary because right now he s getting so bad honestly and looks so bad that now people have kind of buckled down and said if i admit that donald trump is bad, then i have to kind of take inventory with the fact that i supported him for eight years, particularly in political folks. so, yeah, i think this may not