speeches in each precinct before the caucus goers vote for their candidate of choice. in a secret ballot. no early voting. no absentee voting. no veil in voting in this instance. the process can take a little while, but this, year could be the coldest iowa caucus ever. current forecast for monday night include record sub-zero temperatures, which, of course, could affect turnout. at this point, a force of nature might be the only thing that could prevent donald trump from winning the state. the latest poll of iowa conducted by suffolk university earlier this month shows the former president leading the pack with 54% of likely republican caucus goers saying they plan to support him. his closest rival, nikki haley, is 34 points behind. a 20%. if these numbers hold, trump has the opportunity to smash the record for the largest margin of victory in iowa gop history for a non incumbents. that s a record currently held by bob dole, who won the 1988 caucuses by 13 points. over pat ro
in dealing with the united states in his victory speech, he said that this victory shows that taiwan, in this battle between democracy and authoritarianism, taiwan is on the side of democracy. he thanked people here for helping him write this new chapter. all of this, of course, not going over well in beijing. there were already official statements coming up in the taiwan affairs office, and the ministry of foreign affairs, reminding people that taiwan is an internal affair for china, and that its intentions remain unchanged. they see the reunification of taiwan with the mainland as on stoppable. janis, when the story came out, but news of the election broke, at that myself, i really want to cover this. somebody told me, janice is there. a very happy about that. thank you for joining us this morning. note to everybody, taiwan counts it s ballast really, really fast. right after the break, we got today s meeting of the velshi banned book club. we re taking a look at that winner of t
on this morning. lai ching-te of taiwan s democratic progressive party has won that country s presidential election. this is a crucial election that could determine taiwan s future stands and relationship with china. beijing has accused lai of being a troublemaker and a separatists. china s leaders have described this as quote, a choice between war and peace, quote, warning taiwanese voters against supporting lai, whose party has been in control, by the way. one of the main concerns for voters was policy with china, which claims taiwan is its own territory, and it s not ruled out a military invasion to fully control taiwan. joining me now is nbc news correspondent, michael, front janis mackey flare live from taipei. can, is tell me what this means for taiwan? well, lilia lai campaign got to the status quo, who voters who want things in taiwan to stay the same. that independents, not