to the debate for donald trump, that would diminish the debate? well, it would diminish chris christie to confront him directly, but it would not diminish the entire debate, because among the candidates, the question is who is going to rise above this second and third tier of candidates. for governor ron desantis, he has never been on a national debate stage, and with the other candidates sort of trying to rise to occasion, and so the presidential debates are happening much later, but very, very important in winnowing down the field. and many questions between now and august 23rd in milwaukee when that first debate happens, sara. yes, we are looking all of the potential 12 candidates who are trying to rise up to get those 40,000 individual donors
led the democratic process as well. be as present as possible. so much of what we talk about with campaigns are about data mining, how you reach voters digitally, how you advertise to them on television. iowa s different. you need to be all over the state, not just in places like des moines and sioux city, but in winterset where john wayne was born. you need to be in emmitsburg in the northwestern part of the state near the minnesota border. ron desantis has said he s going to go to all 99 counties. rick santorum did that in 2012. it helped him win, but one thing that we should be mindful of with the iowa caucus, winning is very important in iowa, but it s not about who wins iowa per se. it s about who emerges from it. iowa is the beginning of a win winnowing of a process. let s talk about winnowing. next week pence and christi bergum, chris sununu is also talking about it, he was on fox