Members who then get their boat and they will decide who becomes party leader in the next premise. the former chancellor rishi sunak is likely to make it through. he has won the support of 118 mps in the last round. the battle for second place between liz truss and penny mordaunt. let s hear more from our clinical correspondence who has been speaking to two supporters of penny mordaunt and liz truss battling it out for that second place slot. tori; out for that second place slot. tory mps have begun out for that second place slot. to ; mps have begun voting last round of the leadership contest to get the number of contenders for the next prime minister down to the last two. there are three candidates vying to be the next prime minister, richey sooner, liz truss and penny mordaunt. i am joined sooner, liz truss and penny mordaunt. iamjoined by sooner, liz truss and penny mordaunt. i am joined by two supporters, one supporter of liz truss and another supporter of penny mordaunt. can we
On the democratic campaign trail. bill: few more things. bernie sanders hitting joe biden and the super pacs from over the weekend. joe biden once said i m paraphrasing, you have to be careful about people who have super pacs. in his campaign joe has not done particularly well in getting a lot of donations from working class people. he is now forced to go to billionaires and multi-millionaires to get his funding. bill: what we find in our polling that joe biden leads donald trump in a national poll. in iowa you have a four-way race. warren with a slight edge. the battle for second place is wide open three months before a ballot or caucus is arrived at there, byron. bernie sanders sounded so concerned that joe biden has had trouble fundraising. yes, the race in iowa is different from the national
pretty steady. we re at ward 1. you step inside where voters started showing up about 6:00 this morning. right now you see a few of the voters here. you haven t seen the long lines, but a steady stream of folks coming in here. this is a very busy ward. we take a look back to 2008, according to official als here, they had to call up the clerk s office and get the ballots. they got the ballots this time. perhaps they won t have to do that. overallstate wide according to the secretary of state s office, they re expecting 250,000 ballots to be cast in this highly contested republican primary compared to last time in 2008, roughly 9,000 more, kyra. romney s had a pretty rough 48 hours. what kind of impact do you think that will have? reporter: i think the real test will come once all the votes are counted. what i can say though is that when he made the mistake yesterday of referring to enjoying firing people he was talking about insurance companies that aren t up to par. you s
with jon huntsman. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. the first primary beghaj at midnight in new hampshire. most polls close three hours from now. we ll have complete coverage. here is what we re watching for. first, mitt romney s margin of victory. final polls show him with a nearly 20-point lead. if romney wins big he may see almost invincible heading into south carolina. if he doesn t win big, he may seem beatable, at least some experts predict. second, who comes in second, jon huntsman gambled on a good showing in new hampshire. he has the chance to show he s a viable candidate. they play very well among many in new hampshire, and could help him emerge as the anti-romney candidate. finally, independenting can stroh in this open primary, so how will they vote? they may decide the winner, who will that signal for next november? we re watching all of this unfold. new hampshire state officials are expecting a record turnout of a quarter million prima
He s lunned here forever. he s lived here forever. he s been campaigning here forever. he was the governor of a neighboring state. he s going to win new hampshire, no doubt about it, there s the battle for second and third. so you saw this dog fight between everyone who wanted get ahead of each other in any way possible. we saw newt gingrich mixing it up with ron paul who mixed it up with rick santorum. that s what they were doing. did they miss an opportunity? i think so. if nobody goes after mitt romney, he s going win the whole thing. they need do something soon. we ll see if they do it this morning. you raise an important point. there s a a situation where you want to come in second because you want to be at just a one and two race between mitt romney and yourself. you think you could coalesce and get the conservative voters and beat him. you would expect to hear criticism of romney even if that wasn t the most important goal. you heard rick santorum coming close to criticizi