President trump who was tossing signed footballs into the crowd. Our alexandria hoff is live here on set with the latest. Hello, alex. Reporter hi, mike. Just four months out from the iowa caucuses, and friction played out both on and off the field. Attending has become a political tradition for white house hopefuls, and former President Trump arrived in ames, iowa, with plenty of fanfare. He toss toed out those footballs and flipped burgers while joining in on a fraternity tailgate. How you doing, President Trump . What do you think about this . That is some turnout. Yeah. I guess the youth likes trump. We love iowa. Reporter you can hear the inside Jack Trice Stadium reaction was a bit more mixed, cheers combined with some booing. The the former president watched the rival iowaiowa state matchup from a private box while Governor Ron Desantis embraced a more lowkey position, sitting in the stands behind governor besides governor kim rehold ins. The hawks won 20 the13, by way. Tailgati
welcome back. we all know that donald trump is a creature of the media. television, cable news has fuelled his campaign and sometime treating this like a reality show. did another medium set the stage. think about talk raid show. he said there s a great divide within the gop and talk radio is reflecting that divide coming down firmly on the side of those fed up with the system. they are giving voice to their listeners who are being ignored. it s the same reason donald trump is doing so well into the polls. he s tapped into a frustration much of talk radio already understands because so many of us understand our listeners a whole lot better than the republicans in washington. let s talk about this issue. i wonder if donald trump if talk radio was the seed or fertilizer for donald trump s
republican nomination? from a message standpoint, she helps him a lot, because she said john mccain essentially is the original tea party candidate today. mccain has a problem on the right. there s no question about that. they view him, again, immigration, they don t like what he did. they view him sometimes as someone who compromises so much. mccain has been so tough on the president he s trying to prove to his base i m getting in this guy s face on almost every issue there is. j.d. hayworth did a lot of talk raid show, send the maverick back to the senate, not some blah blah blah. it was interesting what she was doing there. it s interesting that now john mccain needs sarah palin. it was probably the largest rally he s had since he ran for the presidency, so he needs her now. and both of them were on fire today. you ll have a lot more on this story coming up at the top of the hour? safe to say, she owes him, he sort of made her famous. we ll cover that at the top of the hour.