tomorrow s contest is now out. if the trends in this poll hold, donald trump is going to pull off a win by an unprecedented margin for a republican or a democratic presidential candidate in iowa. this is the final nbc news des moines registry iowa pole ahead of tomorrow s caucuses. trump, his lead is down ever so slightly, by the way. this is what was in december, 51. now he is at 48. you can see that he has 28 point lead over his next closest competitor, nikki haley. nikki haley s first choice support, meanwhile, rose from 60 to 20 points. ron desantis support has slipped three points from last month, 19 to 16. vivek ramaswamy is an out below, heat remains below 10%. the current record margin of victory in the iowa republican caucus says for a non incumbent candidates is 13 points. that was set by bob dole in 1980. trump wins to more by anything remotely close to what these polls were predicted, he won t make history. that s an addition to the history that donald trump is al
finished. pardon-palooza. rhonda santa fouls to pardon some january 6th insurrectionists, including trump himself. what is he thinking? i m michael steele in for ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. to breaking developments tonight to begin the hour. in a history making vote, the texas house just voted to impeach state attorney general, ken paxton. a republican. temporarily removing him from office over actions of misconduct that included bribery and abuse of office. the vote to adopt the 20 articles of impeachment was overwhelming. 100 and 21 to 23. attention now shifts to the texas senate which will conduct a trial with senators acting as jurors, and designated house numbers representing their place, presenting their case rather, as impeachment managers. also breaking tonight, new developments on the critical debt limit negotiations. a short time ago, nbc news learned that president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just finished speaking by phone. their call lasting
night. thanks to you at home for joining us. happy to have you with us here tonight. this is how the news unfolded today, in nashville. how the news unfolded on live tv in that city as it was happening. this was on the channel 4 local news in nashville. we anticipate this news conference starting at any moment. first official news conference where we can hear where investigators are in their investigation. some personal perspective on this as well. yeah, there s absolutely no words for what s going on today. i m actually at school, a shooting survivor myself, happened years ago, it was if eighth grade and all of this is flooding back flashbacks for me and what i went through with my classmates. i was actually in the hallway during break when the gunman opened fire shooting one of my peers and killing them and just after hearing the gunshots i just knew to run and i hid underneath the risers in my choir class and those minutes and hours of waiting to be released by pol
to voters. moments ago, in pittsburgh, president obama rallied with democratic senate nominee, john fetterman, saying that voters have a clear choice on tuesday. pennsylvania, you ve got a choice between politicians who seem willing to say anything and do anything. to get power. people who see you and know you, and care about you and share in your values, i want to make your lives better and move this country forward and bring people together. that was just one of the major events today and which a trio of u.s. presidents, are bringing their star power to the campaign trails just last hour, president biden wrapped up a speech in joliette, illinois. that s where he focused on social security, also lowering prescription drug costs. but he also employed americans to make sure they vote. later today, president biden and former president obama, they re going to reunite in philadelphia, rallying of course for the democrats. also, tonight former president trump will rally for re
call or go online today. tonight on the reidout. when true democracy goes away, people get hurt. it has real life consequences. it s not some abstract political science question. we are all affected. and we take this for granted and we can t. and he s not kidding around. after 240 years after peacefully transferring power, every presidency since george washington ended his term after the second one, we re reminded our democracy really is a fragile construct. and taking a look at some. overlooked races this cycle, a reminder that anyone can win if enough people vote for them. and later rob reiner and michael moore join us to give us their takes on this tumultuous mid term and who they think won the week. we begin four days from an election with massive consequences for our democracy. the stakes in this election could not be higher for so many reasons. in her first public remarks, speaker of the house nancy pelosi thanked supporters for their good wishes for paul pe