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this is it, the official kickoff for the 2024 battle for the white house, and one state has the first shot at shaping the race. it s decision time in the bitter cold heartland. iowa has a huge, huge role to play here. this starts here. there is no way iowa is voting against trump. the first votes in a presidential contest that is testing american democracy in extraordinary ways. are you ready? will the former president and unprecedented legal peril get one step closer to a white house comeback? 2024 is our final battle. it s iowa s choice. tonight, after months of anticipation, the republican race gets real. donald trump aiming to drive home his dominance over his gop rivals. we got to be sure that we put this thing away. ron desantis and nikki haley. our best days are yet to come. engaging in a heated showdown to be the top alternative to trump. nikki haley is running on her donors issues. i m the only one running on your issues. he is goi ....
but as the national review puts it, quote, he is a good man, a solid conservative, and is qualified and prepared for the job as anyone in the field, including the current and former president. but pence s cannedsy faces the same basic obstacles of those of nikki haley, tim scott and others, he seems man from an earlier time and little sign for demand of his candidacy. he enters the race 50 points behind donald trump, a man who once categoried him as a coward. a democratic pollster and president of brilliant corners research, john kasic, former governor of ohio and former presidential candidate. cornell and john are msnbc political analysts. great to have you all here. governor, mike pence is a conservative, big with evangelics, no stranger to the cultural wars, all things you would think the party likes, but do his actions on january 6th, the fact that he refused to hold up certification of the election, just negate all of that? well, i what i think at the end of th ....
we fought through the wilderness and threw open the doors of richmond slave jails, all to save the constitution and renew its promise of equality and freedom. we stormed the sands and scaled the cliffs of normandy. we drove tanks through the gates, we planted the stars and stripes on iwo jima and saved civilization. we marched on washington and won the right of suffrage for women. we marched over the edmund petttus build. we about built rockets to the moon. we built the largest economy, the greatest military in history, and we buried the soviet union beneath it. the american people are always there for one another. when neighbors are hurting, strangers load up their minivans and head that way. whether it was when the towers fell and people rushed across the country to search through the rubble or whether it was when the winds blew here in iowa and the floodwaters rose. so i ask you to remember who we are. if you are attempted to despair. we re americans. and there s not ....
former new jersey governor chris christie. at the top of that list, it s florida governor ron desantis, the far-right culture warrior against abortion rights, the lgbt community, and disney. one of his states largest employers. desantis has said his term as governor will serve as a, quote, blueprint in his quest to remake america and florida s image. that would be more impressive if you were not losing an all out war with a cartoon mouse, but more on that later. donald trump may be a disgrace to twice impeached criminally indicted former president who fermented insurrection, and was recently found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, and is currently the subject of several federal and state investigations. but a new harvard capitalist poll shows none of that has hurt his standing with the republican base. joining me now, david jolly, the former republican congressman from florida who left the party in 2018, and michael steele, former chairman of the rnc, msnbc politi ....
across the network of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me, i see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow. it is that time of year when your books come out, and everybody can portal for pictures at the classmates of clay really judge there are cuts and senior quotes. these kind of voters alike time capsules. in a decade, you get to look back and remember when certain classmate seemed so incident innocent other seemed so awkward. and look what has happened since. mullets are back in style, who could ve known? well, there was a unique sort of class photo taken in washington. it was for a very small group of people the men and women who have been speaker of the house. that is speaker kevin mccarthy, posing with almost all of his living predecessors, there is newt gingrich, of course, who was speaker of the house from 1985 to 1999. there is nancy pelosi, who is speaker from 2007 to 2011. and then again taunting to this year. there is john boehner, who is speaki ....