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That s no joke, even for iowans. so all of these campaigns are working on making sure that their supporters aren t complacent. complacency with trump is a big issue. they re concerned that the voters might not go because they think he s going oh win, but it is getting people to the caucus sites, even in this frigid cold. this new poll has haley moving up to second place, ron desantis in third. what are you seeing on the ground there? reporter: you know, with nikki haley, certainly that sort of topline number is a big deal for her. but if you look deeper inside the poll, jake, the enthusiasm that she has isn t as strong. and that is a concern generally speaking, but even and especially with weather like this. ly just tell you anecdotally, we were at a desantis event yesterday. we met several voters who said they were nikki haley supporters, but they still wanted to come and hear ron desantis just to be sure. ....
Whether or not he believes they need to have a short-term spending deal in order to give themselves more time to negotiate those fuller bills at that topline spending agreement. that is something that schumer has made clear he believes is necessary. he took procedural steps yesterday to make sure that the senate is ready with a short-term spending bill. so that still remains to be a major question right now. but the underlying news is that johnson is not walking away from the deal that he reached and anonsed on sunday with majority leader chuck schumer. not giving into that pressure right now from the right flank, which also means it looks increasingly likely he s going to need more and more democrats no matter how they move forward on this. lauren fox all over it for us. thank you so much. let us go back to iowa to the campaign trail now. political director david chalian is with us here. david, the weather is a serious factor right now because it is ....
Says the topline agreement remains, that means we re going to get our correspondents up to discuss this further, but that to me says that when he talked about the agreement, the last agreement was a top line agreement with the senate democratic leader chuck schumer, a top-line agreement on funding the government. they are up against a first of two deadlines next week to come to a funding agreement, to avoid a series of step that lead to a shutdown. it would set in next week and then a full government shutdown. this has been another moment where mike johnson is up against a challenge and a real test and he s really facing it from the right flank of the the party, who are balking over that topline agreement, some of them over moving forward with any government funding without serious cuts other things brought in. lauren fox has been covering ....
All this. you were standing right there. that s where the speaker was. what more does this mean? speaker johnson making it clrystal clear moments ago he sticking to the topline spending agreement that he reached with majority leader chuck schumer and was announced on sunday. there had been some question whether that deal maybe in j jeopardy given the fact there were hardline conservatives pushing johnson to back away from the agreement that he reached with chuck schumer. he just said he believes that agreement is the best one he could have gotten. he also made it clear he was talking to the hardline conservatives yesterday because his approach to the speakership was always going to be he wanted to hear from all siends of the republican conference. but the reality here is that republicans are divided on the best path forward. and he has to make a call. the call he s making is that sticking with the topline agreement. he did not answer questions on ....