Insiders are in trouble. Tonight well talk about how the final days of iowa campaigning debating and not debating might affect iowa caucusgoers support. Democrat and president ial nominees. But were going to begin with the republicans and this debate last night in des moines, an event donald trump boycotted after a spat with fox news. Texas senator ted cruz was running second in the polls had the most to lose and delivered a flat, poor performance. Analysts say florida senator marco rubio and former governor jeb bush did better. Here is a lock at some of the highlights. This is lie that teds campaign is built on and rand touched upon it, hes a conservative guy and everyone else is a rhino. Ted youve been willing to say and do anything to get votes. You worked for george w. Bushs campaign. You helped design george w. Bushs immigration policy. Marco made the choice to go the direction of the major donors to support amnesty because he thought it was politically advantageous, i honored my
This is al jazeera america, live from new york city and big night almost in iowa and we are told the first contest of 2016 president ial race after 18 months hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of those t. V. Ads that youre probably a little tired of iowa people will take part in caucuses tonight and candidates crisscrossing the state in a mad dash to get the latest support and the poll gives Hillary Clinton a slight lead on Bernie Sanders but its within the margin off error. Republican and donald trump has 28 and cruz had 23 and in second place and we are live in des moines so we know the lineal vote is key in this election and i understand you ran into the former secretary of state at a coffee shop, what is she saying to people in the last few hours before the caucuses finally get underway . She had one key phrase rochelle and she said are you caucusing for me tonight and walked to the coffee shop behind us and were it not for the fact she was with her daughter chel
Law the preference polls are closed. Time is running out. And the candidates are out in full force. Stick with me, stick with a plan, stick with the experience, stick with the ideas that will actually work for our country. Its going to happen with trump, folks. We are going to win. There is nothing, nothing, nothing. That we cant accomplish. I will grow the conservative movement, we will defeat the democrats and turn the country around and address the issues and unite americans. Tonight, from the heart of the hawkeye state, the countdown to the caucuses is on almost over after a year of listening to campaign slogans, attacks and debates, iowa was are prepared to make their choice. Lets get to iowa. We are joined live from demoyne. What are some of the biggest issues discussed by the candidates today . The biggest issues are undoubtedly health care, the economy and National Security. Its been a little bit of a Sticking Point for Hillary Clinton, her opponents are trying to use breaking
Perspective of an employer who wants to be able to bring in a foreignborn worker to take a job. They may be looking at it from the perspective of an immigrant who wants to be able to sponsor a relative. They may be looking at it from the perspective of somebody who is illegally in the country who has u. S. Citizen children and wants to try to get legal status so that they do not any longer fear the possibility of deportation. I want to open this up to questions fairly shortly, but i t to get back again to the what basically came out as the big picture in the quote i pulled from wiki. Focused, as an organization, on the big picture in terms of resources basically. And i hope that all of you are very much aware of the fact that a generation, are facing some very severe resource constraints in your lifetimes. One of those major constraints is energy. I would assume you are all aware of that. You are certainly aware of the fact that Petroleum Resources are, in effect, a nonrenewable resour
Governor but if you have a noncorporate of legislature is hard to get your agenda passed. You raise a good point. Lets talk about how we got into this mess. Haley barbour i believe when he was chair of the Republican Party made a decision that democrats didnt pay enough attention to which was in the best in electing legislatures, legislators and republican governors for a lot of reasons he wanted to do it but when reapportionment comes up we can bridge line in congress and have a bunch of people that believe what we believe which happens to be the tea party in Haley Barbours case govern america or at least be obstructionist to american progress. They did it and they did pretty well 20 years ago. That is why we are in the mess we are in. One of the points that i made to democrats is listen im just speculating here but one of the challenges to taking back Congress Might be that they gerrymandered these districts so effectively after they did that its really tough to win and so if you ele