what a fantastic spot we have here in des moines, iowa. it s great to be with you today, everybody, i m martha maccallum. it is sunday, we don t usually see you on a sunday, but we re really excited to be here for the story in iowa, one day to go. so much on the line for all of these candidates and voters across the state as we kick off the 2024 presidential race now in earnest. here in iowa you have the ability to change the trajectory of american politics. vote for the candidate who s going to speak the truth to you. every step of the way we re moving because we re connecting with people, because we re talking about the issues they care about. the entire world will be listening to you, and i believe that iowa is going to speak loud and clear. you re first in the nation for a reason, it s important. martha: former president trump sitting comfortably atop the brand new des moines register poll, always very closely watched. this is a fierce race for second place at
Among those questions, what it could mean for 2020. Could some in the president s party be rethinking whether they want to stick with mr. Trump amid the impeachment fight. Well break down all the im kagss of last nights elections results. A significant new twist in the Impeachment Inquiry. Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland changing his story now, backing up the testimony of several other key witnesses regarding aid to ukraine and the commitment to investigate the 2016 election and the bidens. But why was he allowed to change his testimony . Were going to dig into that in just a moment. Lets go right to the implications of tuesdays elections. For that i want to bring in msnbc National Political correspondent Steve Kornacki. Hes at the big board. Nbc news road war i dont Vaughn Hillyard joins us from louisville, kentucky. Vaughn, its a state that President Trump won by about 30 points in 2016. Here we are just three years later. Looks like there will be a Deck Kr Democrat in the governors me
tells us they ve knocked on the doors of, excuse me, 973,000 doors just here in the state of iowa and, marta, desantis own mom was out here yesterday in these freezing cold temperatures knocking on doors herself, doing it for her son. she flew out from florida. desantis says he thinks his ground game is going to be key tomorrow night. back to you. martha: thank you very much, bill melugin, who is just outside here in des moines, iowa. let s bring in jeff kaufman who is the chair of the republican party of iowa. so tomorrow is a really big night for him and for his party and their commitment to iowa. he s a former iowa state representative. byron york, chief political correspondent for the washington examiner and a fox news contributor who you know well, and he has been on the sustain here in, many times scene here in, many times. it s great to have both of you with us today. jeff, leapt me start with you. what s your feel for tomorrow? what do you sense in the second
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but on election night at the gubernatorial level and in virginia it did work. it s generally been working in the suburbs in 2018 in special elections. matt bevin if i m not mistaken he gets 200,000 more votes than 2015, and he still loses because both sides are so activated. massive turn out. 1.4 million people turned out in that kentucky gubernatorial election. 2015, 973,000. basically a 50% increase in turn out there. mid-term turn out last year you re talking over 115 million people. normally you re getting about 85 million. in a presidential election you get 130. i think there s talk next year just given these turn out trends we re seeing, 145, 150 million, easily going to be the highest turn out just by raw numbers, the highest turn out in our presidential election history. and the beginnings of campaign are well run, one will think of what their vote number is, literally, how many votes do