Thing, he was back in the main stream. so they re doing a great job in iowa right now. on the ground getting people out, knocking and dragging people tonight or tomorrow night. so i think you ll continue to see that operation moving forward. one ning thing that s intere is he s performing well with college educated women. the republican base wants what the republican base wants. it appears that they want donald trump. he s well liked, even by voters in the party who are saying, maybe i ll choose ron desantis, maybe i ll look somewhere else. republicans like donald trump. they like him when he is old donald trump. president donald trump, talking about the policies that those voters liked. they even sometimes like him when he s new donald trump, et cetera. his campaign will try to keep him away from doing too much of that. but he is still donald trump. he is who he says he is. this is going to set up a tough rematch for joe biden.
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Is not in the best interest of donald trump. he will definitely come out wounded. i think i know we kind of laugh and jest about it, but i think vivek ramaswamy has a chance to creep up near third or touch the third place candidate and be really close. i think that although most of his voters are younger, he s done a decent job with our media in iowa. so we ll see how that plays out. as i recall four years ago, then vice president joe biden did he come in fifth in iowa? fourth. somebody remembers. i remember being in a caulk r caucus rooms, with a group of i guess it was kamala harris supporters, a group of bernie sanders supporters. there were these sweet little hopeful biden supporters that i said hope springs eternal. they were right. their hope was in the right
Super pac never back down has built is much, much stronger, much more intense than nikki haley s, by all accounts here on the ground in iowa. dana, stay warm. thank you so much. joining me now is republican presidential candidate florida governor ron desantis. thank you for joining us. so the final des moines register poll considered the gold standard, shows you in third place, trailing nikki haley, more than 30 points behind donald trump. your campaign has focused so much attention and millions in iowa. you visited 99 counties, you spent most of your time as a candidate there. last month, you said you were going to win in iowa. what happen it is you finish third, is that the end of your campaign? well, happy 15th anniversary. thanks for having me on. we re going to do well on monday. our voters are very motivated. i think it s very hard to poll an iowa caucus period, which the
Nomination. who do you want to win tomorrow, and what does that person s path to the nomination look like? well, i think it s clear that donald trump is going to win iowa tomorrow, and there s not much hope of anybody overtaking him. i think that s not a big surprise. i don t think it matters that much, because for the past 24 years, the winner of the republican caucus in iowa has not been the nominee. so it s really about the fight for second place, and ron desantis has put all the marbles on iowa, and spent all of his time and money there, and seems to be going in the wrong direction. i think nikki haley has the momentum. what this race is about is to try to nominate the strongest possible nominee for november. i m convinced that the momentum is with nikki haley, that she has the potential of moving into second place, although be it at a distant second place, which gives her momentum heading into new hampshire, where she s only seven points down, and i think that s a real possibili