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Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Two of Donald Trumps republican rivals are now hedging on whether they could ever support him as the candidates prepare for their last big chance tomorrow to derail the trump train. Meanwhile, trump pulled together his biggest name supporters Chris Christie and sarah palin, for a high wattage primary eve appearance. Five states vote tomorrow and today each Candidates Campaign stops reveal their strategies. Senator cruz looking to pick up delegates in illinois. Senator rubeio making what could be his last stand in florida and john kasich going all in in his home state, the Buckeye State, where he stands a real chance of grabbing all of the winnertakeall delegates. Trump will end his day in ohio a state ....
Donald Trump Holding his final event in the hawk eye state, his campaign trumpeting the fact they are bringing new voters into the caucuses. John . The building where donald trump hopes he is going to be having a Victory Party on the. Not everyone is looking into what donald trump is doing and saying thats the right way to go about it. Dan fire, a former adviser to president obama says donald trump doesnt understand iowa at all. He shouldnt be having big rallies like the one he is about to have in cedar rapids, that all of his staff and volunteers should be tasked with getting people out to caucus. But a couple of the other candidates, Chris Christie and ben carson are out there having events. Donald trump as we know has never followed the traditional iowa playbook. In fact we dont know if he has a ground operation to disp ....
Expected to suspend his campaign during his speech tonight after the iowa results come in. We just saw him at 1 right now at the current tally in iowa. Thats not too much of a surprise. Hes also been in some pretty serious money trouble, which you would expect given his distant third place in the polls. Right now in terms of cash on hand Hillary Clintons got about 38 million cash on hand. Bernie sanders, 28 million cash on hand. Martin omalley, reported cash on hand, 169,000. And the New York Times reporting today that a lot of not just his senior staff but also his junior staff has been working for free. And no matter how much passion youve got for your candidate, thats not sustainable, especially when you turn in a number like this in iowa. So again, we are expecting the campaign of governor Martin Omalley of marylan ....
Balance. And undeterred. As the u. S. And south korea launch massive war games an angry kim jongun threatens to launch a preemptive strike. Could he make good on his threat . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were counting down to the next super tuesday, that would be tomorrow. Four more contests for the republicans with 150 delegates at stake. Donald trump is pulling away, but after a strong weekend, ted cruz is nipping at his heels. Both candidates want marco rubio to quit the race. But after a win of his own, rubio is closing the gap in his home state of florida, according to latest polls. A new trump ad is attacking him there while rubio is getting some help from a conservative group. Can super pac attack ads cut trump down to size . And a sophisticated laptop bomb explodes at an airport in somalia just weeks after a similar device blew a hole in an airliner. And now a u. S. Air strike devastates a terror Training Camp< ....
Frontrunner donald trump has three events today while hess closest rival ted cruz continues his bus tour. You see them dotting the map there. Hillary clinton is holding three events ending the day at a rally with her husband and daughter, and Bernie Sanders has five appearances, including a concert with some wellsan antonio rock bands there in iowa. We will bring you many of these events as it happens live this afternoon. My colleague john berman is already there in des moines. He is getting ready just two days away. Everyone is kind of you know, they have their hands together, because its cold and they cant wait for this day to happen. Reporter i have to say fredricka, you can feel the energy and the urgency here. These candidates, they have almost no time left to make their case, using every second they can to make that case. We have correspondents covering all the campaigns today. Sunlen ser fathi, manu raji covering marco rubi ....