first votes. a key poll shows donald trump far ahead in iowa, with just hours before the kickoff to the 2024 primary race. one candidate jumped in with sky high expectations, now he s feegtsing for his political life. now is our time. will his iowa focus pay off? candidate governor ron desantis joins me next. and tundra on the trail. caucusgoers and candidates brave subzero temperatures in the coldest iowa contest ever. i worry about that. wear layers. mthey can throw a blizzard a us, and we ll have a fight. who will have the advantage in turnout? plus, rough waters. an escalation in the middle east to now a key senator is the to press joe biden on the u.s. role there. is biden s stance widening the rift on the left? the united states is deeply complicit. bernie sanders joins me exclusively. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is frozen. tomorrow is one of the single most consequential days in this year s calendar, t
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let s look at how stagnant this race has been over time. let s put up the des moines register poll. donald trump has been far and above the leader in iowa going back to october. haley and desantis have been swapping second and third place. vivek ramaswamy and asa hutchison swimming in the shallow end. it hasn t really changed. no, listen, again, what s been overlooked is the trump operation. the trump operation is incredibly professional, incredibly disciplined. you may not like the former president or what he stands for, but you have to respect the game. and so suzy wilds, jason miller, john braybender, brian jack, the team run tning this campaign is doing an incredible job and keeping him where he is supposed to be. the fox news town hall he did, he was on message. he laughed off all the dictator
Way, that would help donald trump in the election. ax, governor hogan ax, let me say this. we would not be discussing any of this if biden and trump were not so weak. so it s an interesting election. i wouldn t want to be associated with anything that would be a spoiler for either donald trump or joe biden. we ll just have to wait and see. it s going to be a wide ride in 2024. thanks, guys. one candidate has the edge in voter enthusiasm. we ll dig into the new iowa polling with my panel, next.
16 poll was not accurate, especially one in negative 20 degrees. so these are folks very motivated. our voters are very motivated. we have spent a lot of time in iowa, because we have gone door to door, getting people to commit to caucus to us. we have a huge number of people that have committed to caucus, and we expect these are the people that turn out, so there s a lot of excitement on the ground. we re in this for the long haul. we understand you have to win a majority of the delegates. we understand there s a long process here. but we re going to do well, because we ve done it right. and our folks are going to turn out. i think that anyone that tells you that they can model exactly who is going to turn out in a broader electorate, it s an unknowable. but with our folks, they re committed. they re going to be there and we ll have a good night. so no matter what happens, no matter your result tomorrow night, you re in the race, you re on to new hampshire and south carolina, on to