eastern for cnn s coverage of that iowa caucuses. anderson cooper and kaitlan collins are going to pick up right now with more on the debate. so you tomorrow. [applause] you are looking there at the debate stage at drake university and dumoulin, iowa. tonight s cnn republican debate, that last one before monday s iowa caucuses just now wrapping up. joining me here in just a moment, one of tonight to contend with florida governor ron desantis. anderson, he ends s, nikki haley former south carolina governor went one-on-one for the first time on the debate stage with far more focus on each other on the debate stage then they re competitor who was not there, donald trump, the former president, who s holding arrival town hall a few miles away. that s, right kaitlin. but their respective records and state office, the two also political punches right from the very beginning of the debate when it came to questioning the others sincerity and honesty. nikki haley is running
president of the united states. [cheers and applause] i m not a ruler of the people. i m a servant of the people. i come from the people. [cheers] gov.desantis: my job is to serve you. god rules over us. i don t rule over you the education system has lost its way. not just k through 12 but also higher education people s voice is what matters. you have the ability to bring more people in this process in ways that are going to be meaningful and historic. we are doing what it takes to win here in iowa. and it also helps that i m the candidate that s most in tune with the values of the people of iowa. that i have a record that backs that up. so, now s the time. we did the 99. now we need caucus night to victory. god bless. [applause] bret: welcome to des moines, iowa. good evening from the iowa event center tonight. the second of three special town halls this week, just days before the first in the nation iowa caucuses featuring republicans who want to be president. it
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Tweeted like the respectful issue that it is. those trump so you talk about, where is anybody talk about putting a woman in jail, or giving her the death penalty, it was enough to put a woman in jail she got an abortion, and that is why i say that. arguably, the winning line of the night for nikki haley, these fellows don t know how to talk about abortion. we will judge when, and we won t demonize them. and any traditional election environment, take the trump factor out, she would, by end away, be the front runner. she can tackle an issue like this that matters to the base, but that, in the post roe era, you cannot have us hard-line as a stances run desantis. we ve seen ballad and issues and deep rich states, protecting abortion rights, that republicans turned out to vote for and ohio, kansas, kentucky. there is a disconnect in the post-dobbs era of where republican voters are. it was a broader view there. you have trump on another network today, actually going
Concessions because he can always pull out the card, i put them on the supreme court, i overturned roe v. wade, it is really hard for the other candidates to contest that. ron desantis is trying, by saying he is not pro-life enough, but the voters do not agree. they simply do not agree with ron desantis. again, one of the many ways in which donald trump has thrown out all of the old rules, the old principles of, the republican party, and made at the trump party. this is what frustrates, whether its governor to desantis, or the ten people running against him in 2016 on abortion. an issue, usually playing in the state, and hasn t passed republican caucuses. it s quicksand for, candidates who don t give the right answer. a lot of evangelical, 60% plus on monday here, likely, to identify as evangelical. donald trump, as governor desantis was saying in the debate, he s changed his mind, or abandoned us on this issue, he didn t raise the debt, he