In this state where he has gone all in with all of his resources. This is certainly not where he thought he would be. Hes Trading Barbs not with the front runner, Donald Trump, but with Nikki Haley as theyre fighting it out for second place. Take a listen to the two of them talking about the next step here. Instead of going straight to New Hampshire, Desantis Has decided hes going straight from iowa to south carolina. No doubt an attempt to sort of taunt Nikki Haley on her home turf. Take a listen. Obviously New Hampshire has 20 delegates, iowa has 40. Nevada has a caucus. Im participating, Donald Trump is participating. Nikki haley is not even participating in that. Shell win zero delegates in nevada. The whole name of this game is to win a majority of the delegates, so were competing for every delegate we can. He has only played in iowa, hes invisible in New Hampshire, south carolina, hes fourth and fifth place in both of those. I welcome him to south carolina,
Team until about a week ago have been raising the expectations. Garrett haake, always great to see you. Thank you so much. In the meantime, Ron Desantis is zeroing in on his Post Caucus Fight against his rival, nikki haley. Nbcs Dasha Burns is in West Des moines where desantis will be holding his Caucus Party enough. Its not enough that they have a Caucus Tonight and the results matter a little bit, but they have gone ahead and are Trading Barbs over what happens next. Tell us about it. Reporter lets take a little step back here, chris, because Ron Desantis is the candidate that at the outset of this primary was a Rising Star in the republican party. He was the guy that everyone was looking to to unseat trump as the standard bearer of the republican party, and he was the guy that was saying not so long ago that he was going to win iowa. Now, hes campaigning here as the underdog. Hes fighting for second place for that mantle to take on trump, not just nationally but
or are we making too much about her, you know, sort of the momentum that we re seeing on the national side? trump is locked firmly into first place. that s a lock. that s been a lock for months. desantis and nikki haley are definitely battling out for number two. i mean, the cnn debate the other day, you saw those two trading barbs nonstop throughout the debate. you didn t hear much politics talk because they were too busy trying to battle over who was the bigger liar. the rise is real. when you see desantis go that way toward him, trump making more attacks to nikki haley in stump speeches, the rise is real. but i don t see her overtaking trump at the finish but a strong second-place finish could propel her. could mean the end for desantis. the democratic caucuses, they re basically just admin. i m wondering what the mood is. obviously in national polls, biden s struggling broadly
all went. what was the tone of the debate like? the debate like? it was very fiery and the debate like? it was very fiery and very the debate like? it was very fiery and very combative - the debate like? it was very l fiery and very combative from the very outset of the debate both candidates came out trading barbs and insults within seconds of his opening statement ron desantis provide to nikki haley as mealymouthed. she referred to ron desantis repeatedly as a liar. she revealed a website today ron desantis .com. very aggressive and i think it is a sign that even though they were behind donald trump in the poll, the outcome today really didn t matter to them. they really want the momentum of a good debate going into the caucasus next week and for the caucuses to have dash create a good momentum going into the new hampshire primary further on. but in terms of the reaction so far. what are people saying about this? in the last ten minutes or so i have been speaking to a lot of cam
livelihoods, shops, businesses. you know, it s to think that £75,000 is actually enough, to an average member of the public, they would think that s a lot of money. but actually, when you look at what people have lost, it s absolutely nothing, you know. i think they missed the nought off the end personally. and for our viewers in the uk, you can watch coverage of the post office inquiry live on bbc news from 9:30 this morning. let s move to the us now. republican presidential candidates ron desantis and nikki haley squared off in a tense debate on wednesday, trading barbs just days before the iowa caucuses. have a listen. we don t need another mealy mouthed politician who just tells you what she thinks you want to hear, just to try to get your vote. he has switched his policies multiple times, and we will call that out tonight. but every time he lies,