i m proud to have done it. they wanted to get it back, right? there be no question. we celebrate. that yeah? we didn t. we did something that was a miracle. when i walked onto the stage today, a gentleman in the back, probably works for fox, nice guy, said, sir, that like to thank. you i said, for what? he said, you save 2 million lives in the last three years. you ve saved 2 million lives. i said, thank you very much. i know exactly what you meant. 2 million lives. no one has done more in that regard than me. that is perhaps the most important emission from donald trump last night. again, breaking, about being the one to eliminate a constitutional right for women s health care that has stood for over 50 years. here is donald trump s problem. he goes into, i would call it softball a softball event. i ve never seen one a fawning. i m not sure why they had to host their? you know, they could ve just had one to sit there and smile and say, you are great. ask them the s
ambassador nikki haley in second place for the first time in iowa. the suffolk university survey, trump still leads the race with 54% of support. second place, 34 points back is nikki haley. at 20%, she s followed by florida governor ron desantis whose focus most of his campaign on iowa. 41 points behind donald trump. the bulk of the poll was conducted before former new jersey governor chris christie left the race on wednesday, the kristie hasn t really played and i was not much of an impact there. entrepreneur vivek ramaswamy, they both are in single digits in court in the latest survey. let s bring in nbc news national analyst john highland who is in iowa for us this morning. john, what s going on on the ground three days out? well, first of all, notably absent here in iowa, you, willie. joe mika. none of you guys are here, and
stage for the fox news debate on august 23rd, will be out on bail in a least two different jurisdictions if not three, between now and then. it very well could be when we get on the stage on august 23rd, he could be out on bail in four different jurisdictions. folks should vote for someone else. so, kristie hasn t held back, isa hutchinson hasn t had held back, there are some new ads by the republican accountability project that talks about all this baggage. it doesn t seem to be working quite yet. do you think that most effective message? or is there something else they should be doing? first of all i just don t think it matters at this point, to be honest. what the messages. the republican parties made it clear what they want in who they want, and it s just this wannabe authoritarian criminal. a used to say corrupt donald trump is a criminal and so far there is no indication they want anything different than