officially opens in 24 hours in iowa, where it s cold outside, but the race for the republican presidential nomination is catching fire. right now, the leading gop contenders are making their final pitches to voters, ahead of tomorrow s caucuses in the state. and despite facing a mounting of legal issues, donald trump appears to be the overwhelming favorites, pulling nearly 30 points ahead of his closest rivals, nikki haley and ron desantis. according to the latest nbc news des moines iowa, des moines register iowa poll, out of iowa, in just a few minutes, i ll talk to the chair of the democratic national committee about that. and, about iowa, and about the caucuses colliding with martin luther king holiday tomorrow. and about what his party needs to do, to not just unify against the eventual republican nominee, but to bring disaffected democrats, black voters specifically, back into the fold, ahead of november. let s check on the latest from iowa, however, with nbc s priscil
Our condolences to his family. That is our broadcast for this friday night and for this week. Thank you so very much for being here with us. Have a good weekend and good night for all of us here at nbc news headquarters in new york. So it is a small enough range of what theyre looking for aesthetically that im thinking you beak have to register as having acceptable haircut a or acceptable haircut b. Those are sort of the two lanes that are available 0 to you. Under hair cut a, we have ben affleck. Or josh brolin or mark wahlberg, or jake gyllenhaal, or Chris Helmsworth or the great Anderson Cooper or the great jimmy fallon or that guy from The Hurt Locker who was so good. Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Unquote, contract that included the exclues you be rights to publish her story about having this alleged longrunning extramarital affair with donald trump. Having obtained those exclues you be rights to publish that story, American Media and david peck
putting their words out there. we are putting what their actions are out there. so if they are embarrassed about, the need to change what they do. they need to change how they act, and they need to do what joe biden is doing, which is fighting for all of the hardworking american people. we ve got a president right now who believes that we have to build the economy in the middle out, and the bottom up. who believes that women should have the ability to make their own health care decisions, who believes that we ve got to protect our most vulnerable in our society. our president gets up each and every day, thinking about how to make this place a better place for all americas people. the republicans, they aren t doing that, these maga republicans. so we re going to remind them of it. now let s zoom out from iowa. earlier this month, florida activists successfully participated petition to get initiative on the november ballot,enshrining reproductive rights in the state constitution. of th
all across this country. but the place where russia went all in on stuff like that was the great state of florida. they organized and appropriated florida goes trump rallies held in nearly 20 cities across the state of florida. made one-on-one contact with local florida activists for inperson on the ground help. they hired somebody to impersonate hillary clinton at a florida rally. for whatever reason, florida was a big target for russia s influence campaign and for whatever reason, they were kind of a soft target. russians were able to find people who they could dupe into participating in their operation. but there s another specific way they went after florida we don t yet understand the consequences of. we don t understand the danger of it but it s now back in the news for right now. the details of it turned up a few weeks ago in the last big indictment from the special counsel s office. that indictment against a bunch of russian military intelligence officers from the gru.