new york city in court for the first day of the damages trials in e. jean carroll s case against him. this morning all eyes are on new hampshire now after iowa casts the first ballots in the race for the 2024 republican presidential nomination. former president donald trump cruised to victory in the iowa caucuses winning by nearly 30%. and you can see ron desantis came in a distance second, narrowly edging out former u.n. ambassador, nikki haley. and then vivek ramaswamy came in fourth and dropped out of the race. and asa hutchison just announced he was dropping out of the race. 100,000 iowans turned out, much lower than in 2016. so it s now off to new hampshire. great place. we won it last time, and we won it both times, and we love it. the people are great. we thank you for your effort and we thank you for your support. you helped us get a ticket punched out at the hawkeye state. our campaign is the last hope of stopping the biden/trump nightmare. and stev
thank you for getting up way too early on this friday morning. morning joe starts right now. there s too much political violence. there s too much intimidation. there are more than 300 election deniers on the republican tickets this year for state, federal, and local government. i mean, this is really serious stuff. if a republican nominee for governor in the state of wisconsin wins, here s what he said. he said, if i win, my party will never lose another election in wisconsin. he s either a prophet or he plans on doing something about election law. that was presidential joe biden in california last night. the latest stop in his jam-packed campaign schedule in the final days before the midterms. meanwhile, big name democrats are out on the trail in traditionally blue areas in concerns that gop messaging on crime could flip what were thought to be safe seats. plus, one of donald trump s most loyal supporters calls him out over a huge stash of campaign cash. those comme
biden s policies are different, i get that, but reporters pressed its aides, but not the president who takes very few questions, about this grim situation. some journalists are buying the white house explanation the problem is complicated. that s obviously true, but the tone is drastically different. the old media narrative, trump was a heartless hardliner. the new narrative biden means well but faces a difficult challenge. no amount of sympathetic spin can change that joe biden is now responsible. this is media buzz. i m howard kurtz. journalists keep rising the border crisis at white house briefings while the pundits are pointing fingers. so, how are you say that s not a crisis? it doesn t matter what you call it, it is an enormous challenge. it s something front and center for the president. we re just seven weeks into the biden presidency and already he s facing a growing humanitarian crisis at the u.s.-mexico border. the difference here, a lot of these children
Republicans also have to understand that elections are not about having betternd ideas. tha forty nine states allow some version of ballot harvesting. only alabama mandates that an individual hand in their own ballot themselves. and they ve got to get in the ballot business, in their my view. but the issue of abortion, i believe, played a bigger partr . many of us thought it would u because it s been demagogued. w. people have been told over and over again abortion is illegal in the country. with overturning roe v. wade. that is not the case.g of ro. that s not well, it s also been case. misrepresented in the media media, as kellyanne pointed out, that only wants to callly one side of this debate radical or extremist.. and the democrats, when it looks at late term abortion, and several of their other procedures, they are the real extremists on this. ex they art i also do caution republicans not to play into that. there are an awful lotcautio ofe people, particularly young women, coll
Senate. but i appreciated their focus on dreamer kids, who are essentially americans but for the paperwork. i think we should focus on them first, and of course our national security. but those kids have been waiting. it s terrible we have not moved as a body. you brought up, i think rightfully, how it s been demagogued. i think about the state you represent. you know there s a lot of folks in the middle not very empathetic to what s happening at the border. how do you get them to accept a compromise? i think they will. i think my voters in ohio are reasonable. we re a slightly leaning republican state. i don t hear much about immigration from voters, except for people on the far right that