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 fighting for his political life. now is our time. will his iowa focus pay off. candidate governor ron desesant joins me next. and tundra on the trail. caucus-goers brave sub-zero temperatures in the coldest iowa contest ever. wear layers. i worry about that. they could throw a blizzard at us and we ll fight. reporter: david axelrod and larry hogan weighs in and our panel of experts is here to discuss into and rough waters. and a key senator is said to press president biden over the u.s. role. is biden s stance widening the left. bernie sanders joins me exclusively. hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of the union is frozen. tomorrow is one of the most single consequenceal days. the iowa caucus where donald trump is hoping voters will help imsew up the primary
and haley moving up to second place with 20%. desantis 16%. and ramaswamy still in the race, in case you for ggot, 8%. plus or minus three points. is there any threat to him? there is two ways to run a w race. scared an unopposed. his lock looks pretty solid. but there is still it is bad weather. desantis does have kim reynolds, he has her operation. the governor of iowa. he has her ground game operation and the trump folks have been out. i think the big loser tomorrow is nikki haley. i think that her numbers, if you look at the cross tabs that come to the independents and democrats, a lot soft. doesn t have as good of a ground game and spend the time in putting it together. so i think desantis could outperform that poll and come in second and do very well and have
momentum going not not that he ll win new hampshire but move past new hampshire to south carolina. the pollster at the table, i would like you to weigh in. nikki haley probably saw the poll and thought awesome i m in second place and you dive into the cross tabs as david points out, then enthusiasm is not there compared to others. and that is going to create a big problem because it is not just iowa that you have to win over republicans to win the republican primary, but a lot these other states. new hampshire may well be the kind of aberration on this pathway to the nomination. a lot of independents vote in new hampshire. that s right. so for somebody like nikki haley, she need this is boost to prove she s not just a one-state candidate who only wins in places with a lot of independents and moderates. so it is concerning the numbers underneath the surface. with that said, it doesn t seem likely to me that ron desantis is going to win the iowa caucus. so i don t know what his
so much. and joining me now is republican presidential candidate florida governor ron desantis. governor, thank you so much for joining us. so the final des moines register poll, considered the gold standard shows you in third place, trailing nikki haley, more than 30 points behind donald trump. your campaign is focused so much attention and millions of dollars into iowa. you ve visited 99 counties and spent most of your time as a candidate there. last month you said you were going to win in iowa. what happens if you finish third? is that the end of your campaign? well happy 15th anniversary. thanks for having me on. we re going to do well on monday. our voters are very motivated. i think it is very hard to poll an iowa caucus period, which the 16 poll was not accurate and predicted but especially one in negative 20 degrees. so these are folks that are very motivated. we have spent a lot of time in iowa because we ve gone door-to-door, getting people to commit to caucus to us.
is biden s stance widening the left. bernie sanders joins me exclusively. hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of the union is frozen. tomorrow is one of the most single consequenceal days. the iowa caucus where donald trump is hoping voters will help imsew up the primary contest before it begins. late last night, the des moines register poll suggests that mr. trump is well on his way to achieving that goal. half of iowa caucus-goers said they would pack the former president with trump leading every demographic group and far outpaces ambassador and south carolina governor nikki haley by almost 30 points. haley s campaign welcomed the results last night as a sign of her momentum as she edged out governor ron desantis.