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
Be Commander In Chief but trump is looking to turn the numbers around, laying some sharp criticism on Hillary Clinton. She never talks about policy. Reporter donald trump and Hillary Clinton Clashing Over whos ready to be Commander In Chief. He has no clue about what hes talking about. Reporter trump unveiling endorsements from nearly 90 retired u. S. Military leaders. And revealing his plan to demands a plan to take down isis. Were going to convene my top generals and give them a simple instruction. They will have 30 days to submit to the oval office a plan for soundly and quickly defeating isis. He says he has a secret plan to defeat isis. But the secret is, he has no plan. Rs clinton warns trump will lead the u. S. Back to war. When it comes to fighting isis, he has been all over the map. You would have to literally map it out. Hes talked about letting syria become a free zone for isis. Look at the map. Donald. Hes talked about sending in american ground troops. Not on my watch. Rep
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
it has trump at 48%, haley moving up into second place with 20%. desantis 16%. vivek ramaswamy still in the place, 8%. the margin of error, plus or minus 3.7 points. does trump have a point, is there really any threat? there s two ways to run a race, scared or unopposed. the lock looks pretty solid here. if you look at the numbers in the cross tabs, it looks solid. but there s still it s going to be bad weather. desantis does have kim reynolds, he has her operation. the governor of iowa, he has her ground game operation. i think the big loser here tomorrow is going to be nikki haley. i think her numbers, if you look at the cross tabs, they come from independents and democrats, a little soft. doesn t have as good a ground game and spend the time on putting it together. so i think desantis could
but this year it was a referendum on election denialism, authoritarianism and the extremes of the republican party. democracy was on the ballot, and it one. joining me now, jaime harrison, chair of the democratic national committee. chairman harrison, congratulations! welcome back to the sunday show! thank you so much, jonathan. listen, man. if a black man could blush, i would be all red right now. [laughter] you got me there, right at the start of the show! listen, senate majority meter chuck schumer said last night it was candidate quality, the democratic agenda and its accomplishments, and the americans people rejection of extremist maga republicans that allowed democrats to hold the senate. does it pretty much sum it up? i would also add one heck of a ground game operation we were in as well. you know, giving credit to president biden, vice president harris, second husband dug him