eastern for cnn s coverage of that iowa caucuses. anderson cooper and kaitlan collins are going to pick up right now with more on the debate. so you tomorrow. [applause] you are looking there at the debate stage at drake university and dumoulin, iowa. tonight s cnn republican debate, that last one before monday s iowa caucuses just now wrapping up. joining me here in just a moment, one of tonight to contend with florida governor ron desantis. anderson, he ends s, nikki haley former south carolina governor went one-on-one for the first time on the debate stage with far more focus on each other on the debate stage then they re competitor who was not there, donald trump, the former president, who s holding arrival town hall a few miles away. that s, right kaitlin. but their respective records and state office, the two also political punches right from the very beginning of the debate when it came to questioning the others sincerity and honesty. nikki haley is running
join us monday, january 15th, at 4:00 p.m. eastern for cnn s coverage of the iowa caucuses. anderson cooper and kaitlan collins will pick it up now with more on the debate. see you tomorrow. you are looking, the debate stage at drake university in des moines, iowa. tonight s cnn republican debate, the last one more monday s caucuses. one of two contenders, florida governor ron desantis. anderson, he and nikki haley, the south carolina governor, were one-on-one for the first time on the debate stage. they were more focused on each other than their competitor, donald trump, who was holding a rival town hall just a few miles away. they did not put the same fire on him as they did on each other. the two pulling no punches from the beginning of the debate when it came to questioning the other s sincerity and honesty. nikki haley is running. we don t need another mealy mouth politician who just tells you what she thinks you want to hear to try to get your vote and get into
Republican position. it has been in recent years where the party has moved, i think, further to the right, but trump hugging ronald reagan on that, actually, is articulating, for most of my career, the traditional republican position. pro-life, reasonable limits for the exceptions. that is a winning hand, if you can get into an abortion debate, nationally, which i assume we will do because biden will want to run on that. what trump just articulated will not sound that scary. in the primary, he got the supreme court. you can say whatever you want about donald trump, but he got the supreme court. it s a trump card. the fundamental issue for these other candidates is that trump is, frankly, not a principled candidate. you can t undermine him on the idea that he has said one thing, and done another. voters have priced that into donald trump, that he will change his position, that he
Position on abortion. it s recenter audios that the party has moved to the right. trump hugging ronald reagan is articulating what was the traditional republican position. reasonableness for the exceptions. that s the winning abortion debate. what trump just or dicklated is not all that scary. and he did the supreme court. you can say whatever you want about donald trump. he did the supreme court. on the mental issue for the other candidates, is that trump is frankly, not a principled candidate. you can t undermine him on the
Vote for us. here s trump hugging an anti-semite who has gone out of his way even mocking adidas, i can say all the anti-semitic things i want to say, and you can t do anything about it. a holocaust denier, a guy who jokes about victims of the holocaust being burnt cookies. a guy who s an open fascist, neo-nazi, white supremacist, and he walks into the white house and republicans silent. for the most part, silent, and they wonder why they keep losing elections. that s right. i mean, a lot of attention is paid to parts of the jewish community that do actually support the republican party, and of course that s a very real phenomenon. but the reality is, and i don t have the numbers in front of me, that the majority of american jews do vote democratic, and when you see these pictures of donald trump with nick fuentes,