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99 counties, despite visiting only 15 of them. florida governor ron desantis came in a distant second, receiving 21% of support in the hawkeye state. 30 points behind trump and just 2 points ahead of former south carolina governor nikki haley. this years republican caucuses had the lowest turnout since the year 2000, drawing around 108,000 voters. thats about 14% of the states registered republicans. good morning. welcome to "morning joe." it is tuesday, january 16th. how did the resul...

[ applause ] >> good evening. welcome to iowa where in just 34 days, caucus goers here will cast the very first votes of the 2024 presidential race. we are live at grand view university in des moines for cnns town hall with florida governor ron desantis. im jake tapper. right now, the presidential hopefuls are furiously campaigning to win over republicans here in iowa. its a state that can make or break presidential candidates. governor desantis has visited all 99 of iowas counties. he...

♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] good evening and welcome to iowa, where in just 34 days, caucus goers here will cast the very first votes of the 2024 presidential race. we are live at grand view university and des moines for cnns town hall, with florida governor ron desantis. i am jake tapper. and right now, the presidential hopefuls are furiously campaigning to win over republicans here in iowa, its a state that can make or break presidential candidates. governor desantis has visited all 99 of...

Core republicans against the frontrunner, george w. Bush. He couldnt make a race of it. I feel like were heading to something like that again this year. Haley is likely to emerge after iowa New Hampshire as the last viable alternative to trump but done it mostly on the votes of independents. And to really make a race of this, shes going to have to give republicans a stronger argument than shes been willing to try so far. Iowa is a deeply red state, a lot of love for trump, but is iowa a bellweth...

Points among republicans. but those numbers dont mean the country has made a final decision on this issue. we noticed another trend. a hardening of views on both sides. this poll showed a record number of people who want abortions to be legal in all cases but it also shows a jump in the number of people who want abortion to be illegal without exception. legal in all cases is at 34%. thats up three points from last year. illegal without exceptions is at 12%. thats five points higher than march of...

Biden, he can be happy. 1966, nixons campaigning around the country for leaders. he gets under johnsons skin. johnson denounces him as a chronic campaigner making him the focus of the republicans. he went on to be elected. >> that is something -- its interesting here. the trump campaign has been trying to get the president to direct his tweets at people other than biden. go after warren. go after bernie. do something to make the democrats have to own the farther left candidates rather than biden...

A strength because with each new controversy it becomes easy to forget what last weeks fuss was all about. >> they have information. i think i would take it. >> the four years after descending on that escalator in trump tower and announcing his candidacy, mr. trump is preparing to kick off his re-election campaign on tuesday in battleground florida. this week, he made it clear, if a foreign government offers him help to win, he will take it. >> this is somebody that said, we have information on ...

Democratic candidates have a new target. its not president trump. take a listen to how comfortable some of the candidates are getting going after joe biden. >> joe biden the return to the past? >> he is. that cannot be who we are going forward. >> does joe biden represent the future? >> no, i dont think so. i think we -- its time for a new generation of leadership. >> democrats can no more turn the clock back to the 1990s than republicans can return us to the 1950s. we should not try. >> joe bid...

And all over the country. because these people are moving with right to work for less laws and theyre trying to strip obama care from people and theyre doing all kind of bad things across the state, including trying to pass these photo i.d. laws, which i think are nothing more than voter suppression. look, democrats have not gotten hip to the fact that republicans identify voter suppression as a core strategic goal. we have not identified voter expansion as a core strategic goal and if im the dn...

Hey, if you have a plan better than obama care, lets hear it. wed be happy to repeal it if we had something else on the table. >> but you live in the state of kentucky where matt beven did get rid of peoples health care and i think republicans feel like they can get away with it. in a state like kentucky, if paul ryan goes in and eviscerates medicare and those minors health benefits for blawhat are democrats going to do about it? how do they fight it and convince kentucky voters they are on thei...