welcome to msnbc s special coverage in tonight s iowa caucus. i am ari melber here with jen psaki for the next hour. great to be here. as we count on to the caucus results coming later tonight with candidates making their final push is. here s what they had to say. today is the day we make history because we do do you guys know anybody who has gonna vote for haley or desantis? yes, i do. and i m gonna try to persuade you can t sit home, even if you vote and then passed away, it s worth it. you can be the most worthless republican in america, but if you kiss the ring, he will say you are wonderful. it s just because he has an excellent record of service. what do you think about when people say, well, iowa is still trump country? i think that is wrong. some iowans, you just heard, pushing back on efforts for tonight s story before voters weigh in. it should happen in the next few hours. while trump does have a lead in the final poll, with haley rising, a
Trump has a huge advantage there. People havent campaigned. Nikki Haley Hasnt Campaign until recently there. New hampshire, probably, its more like The American electorate then iowa is. It is, theoretically, its a purple state, although it hasnt been voting that way as the republican party moved to the far right. Because most republicans in New Hampshire are not far right. Its very hard to say where the first real contest will be because it totally depends on what happens tonight and the next week in New Hampshire. If you say, governor, the sort of reaction and the narrative and the money which is what candidates need to be going cant react to all of those perception pieces, the republican party in iowa has been seen basically finding an evangelical base for trump, which is not what they, evangelicals, would have said they wanted in 2015, 14,