mr. wolf blitzer in the situation room. i ll see you tomorrow. happening now, republican presidential candidates ron desantis and nikki haley are preparing to take questions from iowa voters live here on cnn. we re setting the stage for our back-to-back town halls with donald trump s top gop rivals. i ll speak with chris christie this hour. also tonight, newly released documents reveal that they spent millions of various trump-owned property while he was president. we re following the money trail. isis is now claiming responsibility for a pair of deadly explosion. how this attack could impact wartime tensions in the middle east. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. behind me are live pictures in des moines as they will soon appear in back-to-tack town hall events. let s go to kristin holmes, live from sioux city in iowa. with the caucuses only is 1 days away, what are we hearing from the c
but trump wants to get above 50%. is that right? i think that s right. you don t get any delegate if you come in second. let me put some of the numbers up on the screen. they each spent a lot more attacking each other than trump, who is the front-runner, as we all know. hallie spend $10 million targeting desantis. desantis spent $7.6 million targeting hallie, just $500,000 targeting trump. what does that tell you? they don t want to target trump. they each have tipped their toe in the water, but they don t talk about the insurrection. they don t talk about democracy. they don t talk about his saying
i think 2020 was just the beginning. i think 2022 will be worse and so will 2024. my former party is dead set on killing our elections and i don t think america gets that yet. people need to be vigilant. when you look at polling, democracy, concerns for democracy, have crept up into the top five, top three of pulling. but the economy and inflation are also still top concerns for voters. republican candidates have been hitting democrats very hard on those issues. they don t talk about democracy. they are trying to mayor, we have democrats that have been campaigning on the economy with specific plans to address inflation and whatnot, but i feel like it goes on heard and many places across the country. you have got president obama yesterday, on the campaign trail, and he made a very interesting case that i want to