front-runner will be off the trail and on the phones ipinstead just like his gop rivals. donald trump s campaign forced to cancel three of its four scheduled rallies this weekend in iowa out of an abundance of caution amid severe weather advisories. and instead they re going to hold virtual ones. trump, who i should note, spent two days in court this week hundreds of miles away from iowa and he was instead in washington and new york says he thinks the extreme weather in iowa could actually be good for him. you have the worst weather i guess in recorded history, but maybe that s good because our people are more committed than anybody else. so maybe it s actually a good thing for us. despite the optimism, weir told there is some concern inside trump s campaign tonight over how those subzero temperatures could disrupt their plans to take the caucuses by storm on monday. a senior trump campaign advisor telling cnn, quote, the weather issue may take away the intensity, but a win is a wi
scheduled rallies this weekend in iowa out of an abundance of caution amid the severe weather advisories. instead they re going to hold virtual ones. trump, who i should note spent two days in court this week. hundreds of miles away from iowa. he was instead in washington and here in new york. he says he thinks the extreme weather in iowa could be good for him. they have the worst weather in recorded history, but maybe that s good because our people are more committed than anybody else, so maybe it is actually a good thing for us. reporter: despite the optimism, we re told there is some concern inside trump tonight and how those sub zero temperatures could disrupt their plans to take the caucuses by storm on monday. a senior trump campaign adviser telling cnn, the weather issue may take away the intensity, but a win is a win and no one has ever won iowa by more than 12 points, so that s our goal. maybe a bit of expectation
or not, judged whether he does that, maybe the weather is an impact whether he gets a majority or a plurality, and the race for second. looks there s a break towards nikki haley but ramaswamy, and the desantis people talk about how they have done, what do they call it, the full grassley, all 99 counties and vivek has done the double grassley, 99 counties twice. work on the ground, organization matters, especially if you ve got a weather issue, so we are still looking at that race second, third and fourth, thes critical. sandra: turnout in iowa has been getting stronger in recent election cycles. you look at 2008, 2012, the build to 2016, 187,000 votes, 29% of gop voters. also looked at this question, when you think about your choice, which candidate quality matters most, ok, among iowa republican caucus-goers, can the candidate defeat joe biden, ok.
yeah. i mean i know i wouldn t step outside in those temperatures, but obviously iowans are built differently. i mean there are different ways it could end up panning out. i mean is it just lower turnout across the board and every candidate feels the effects or, you know, is there a scenario where the candidate with the most passionate voters, i.e. the iowans who are really willing to get in the car even though there s like 10 feet of snow in front of them, do they end up having some kind of advantage? i mean i think it is interesting hearing a little bit of concern from the trump campaign preemptively that they re a little worried that the idea that their supports because they think he has it sort of lockdown. maybe they sort of, you know, predict that other people are going to show up and they won t have to. yeah. that s an interesting point, the way that some of them, at least one campaign adviser is spinning it, is the weather issue may take away the intensity. it is a bigger