Granite state. I know when my father puts his mind to something, hes going to do a phenomenal job with it. Hes a great businessman. I know he understands what this country needs or what it wants. Donald trumps son don jr. Weighs in on his dads campaign and much more. Also bo dietl, Katie Pavlich and sheriff david clarke respond to president obamas gun grab. Welcome to hannity. Tonight the all important Iowa Caucuses are only 26 days away and two republican hopefuls are battling it out for the top spot now in the hawkeye state. According to the real clear politics iowa average, texas senator ted cruz currently maintains a small lead with 31 of the vote while donald trump is close behind with 27. 4 . Meanwhile, the Real Clear Politics National average shows donald trump with a commanding 15point lead over the twoway race potentially forming in iowa. Donald trump appears to be going on the offensive. In an interview yesterday trump suggested that the president ial eligibility of ted cruz
Campaign, kentucky senator rand paul did not qualify. Those invited to the undercard forum on thursday are senator rand paul, former arkansas governor mike huckabee, former ceo Carly Fiorina and former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. Fox business set criteria to feature candidates in prime time placing in the top six nationally or in the top five in iowa or New Hampshire according to polls meeting foxs standards. The countdown to iowa continues. A new fox news poll out of the Hawkeye State shows that senator ted cruz is in first place, donald trump second, senator marco rubio who has been rising in the polls now comes in third place. 2016 republican president ial candidate marco rubio joins us with more. Senator, good to see you. Good to see you, sean. Happy new year. Lets talk about the state of the race. Weve got two polls, the most recent polls have you third in iowa but second in New Hampshire and then weve got two polls headtohead against Hillary Clinton. This one has you up,
Ill take that, too. We need to stop allowing Political Correctness to dictate our policies because its going to kill us if we dont. You cant be in favor of defending us against radical islam if youre not for border security. If im elected president well repeal every word of obamacare. Stop the washington bull and lets get things done here with hurt, frank luntz and steve hayes and charles hurt. Caucus goers and they said . Marco rubio was the winner. First time in the seven debates of rubio clear winner. Always done well. Yeah. And the reason this time is because megyn kelly asked him one of the toughest questions and showed him taking a different position on immigration and the response back about what he would do is so effective that people said, you know what . He does have an answer. And second thing is that when he talked about and joked about Bernie Sanders and should be running for president of sweden and emphasized a different Foreign Policy and that those four guys that got ki
And i got to say i had a lot of fun which is important. You got to have fun but i think it provided real clarity, distinctions of the candidates and think the people understand the stakes in this election are really high. I got to say i think donald trump had a tough night. Okay. [ cheers ] let me you were the only one up to this point beside donald trump thats won a state. You are doing well in your home state of texas which takes place on tuesday. There is a very strong possibility that out of tuesday the only two candidates that will have won states are you and donald trump. Theres a poll out showing marco rubio down 20 points in his state of florida. If after super tuesday any of the other candidates have not won a state, do you think they should get out of the race . Well, look. I think youre right that as we look at this race right now, weve had four primaries. The role of the first four primaries historically to narrow the field. They have. We started with 17 candidates. You nee
Responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely vote. Meanwhile the republican president ial candidates are wasting little time drawing their own lines in the sand. I think its up to Mitch Mcconnell and everybody else to stop it, its called delay, delay delay. [cheers and applause] we are one justice away from a Supreme Court that would undermine the religious liberty of millions of americans and the stakes of this election for in year, for the senate, the senate needs to stand strong and say were not going to give up the u. S. Supreme court for a generation by allowing barack obama to make one more liberaldx6 appointees. Mitch mcconnell has made it clear we are not going to move forward until there is election. The court can justices within 8 years in the last few months of the president s term we should not be supporting Supreme Court justices. Joining us now from washington with reaction Fox News Contributor Mary Katharine ham and with me in studio Juan Williams my co