tonight, donald trump starting off 2024 by pushing back on maine s ballot ban. a clash of legal challenges and campaign events which is two weeks to go until the iowa caucuses. then, harvard university s president stepping down after backlash over congressional testimony and allegations of plagiarism. and, congress as a lot to get done in a election year. how this could all play out with republicans now in the majority in the house as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. happy to be back at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. we are kicking off our first show of the new year with the reality of defendant donald trump on the 2024 campaign trail, less than two weeks out from the iowa caucuses, three weeks from the new hampshire primary, and right now his challengers for the gop nomination have yet to touch him in the polls. but donald trump is likely facing multiple trials this year as he makes his pitch to vot
tonight, don t trump starting off 2024 by pushing back on means ballot ban. a clash of legal challenges and campaign events which is two weeks to go until the iowa caucuses. then, harvard university s president stepping down after backlash over congressional testimony and allegations of plagiarism. and, congress as a lot to get done in a election year. how this could all play out with republicans now in the majority in the house as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. happy to be back at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. we are kicking off our first show of the new year with the reality of defendant donald trump on the 2024 campaign trail, less than two weeks out from the iowa caucuses, three weeks from the new hampshire primary, and right now his challenges for the gop nomination have yet to touch him in the polls. but donald trump is likely facing multiple trials this year as he makes his pitch to voter
Campaign team. you are on the ground in iowa. how has he built such a large presence? i think in a lot of ways he learned from his mistakes in the 2015 2016 caucus cycle. he came into that that you re not really knowing what was going on. he had a lot of people who weren t veterans of caucus campaigns. they really kind of were just a ragtag group that were to doubted went. in this cycle they are coming in from the beginning, basically as an incumbent. he has got a big infrastructure behind him ready to help make this thing happen. and so they ve been quietly tracking down what are called caucus policing captains, the people who will be at roughly 1600 caucus sites on caucus night to help donald trump supporters figure out what they re supposed to be doing, let them know how the caucuses work, make sure that they stay and do what needs to be done. and so he is really working to identify these people, make sure that they have the information that they need to
He had a lot of people who weren t veterans of caucus campaigns. they really kind of were just a ragtag group that were to doubted went. in this cycle they are coming in from the beginning, basically as an incumbent. he has got a big infrastructure behind him ready to help make this thing happen. and so they ve been quietly tracking down what are called caucus precinct captains, law people who will be at roughly 1600 caucus sites on caucus night to help donald trump supporters figure out what they re supposed to be doing, let them know how the caucuses work, make sure that they stay and do what needs to be done. and so he is really working to identify these people, make sure that they have the information that they need to be successful, and then to go and recruit more people. we have seen him identify new caucus goers, people who say they haven t participated in this in the past two say they want to come out and support him on january 15th. how much is a gift is it to trump that nik