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 feegtsing for his political life. now is our time. will his iowa focus pay off? candidate governor ron desantis joins me next. and tundra on the trail. caucusgoers and candidates brave subzero temperatures in the coldest iowa contest ever. i worry about that. wear layers. mthey can throw a blizzard a us, and we ll have a fight. who will have the advantage in turnout? plus, rough waters. an escalation in the middle east to now a key senator is the to press joe biden on the u.s. role there. is biden s stance widening the rift on the left? the united states is deeply complicit. bernie sanders joins me exclusively. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is frozen. tomorrow is one of the single most consequential days in this year s calendar, t
demographic group and far outfaces nikki haley by almost 30 points. her campaign welcomed the results last night as a sign of momentum where she edged out ron desantis. while trump flew in last night, but it s far clear from the gamble whether it will pay off. the wild card, monday night, is the dangerous cold front bearing down on iowa. with the temperature expected near 20 degrees below zero. the candidates urged their support toers brave the cold, to go caucus tomorrow. but we ll have to wait and see how much the bone-chilling weather and dangerous roads ends up affecting the turnout and the results. joining me now from iowa is my state of the union co-host and friend, dana bash, to help us mark the 15th anniversary of state of the union this week. thanks so much for getting up early and joining. i m glad you re not outside.
inaccurate reporting of the main stream media that i refer to as fake news. it has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. mainstream media must clean up its act, fast. given a chance to frame these devices as an attack on all of us, on all americans, the president chose instead to blame one of the intended targets, a target he himself views and called publicly an enemy of the people. a target he has constantly railed against and encouraged stadiums pull of support toers full of supporters to rail against. all of the intended recipients are viewed by the president as enemies. that may explain why these people were targeted, it may not. we don t know the motive behind this terror. we won t until the person or persons responsible are caught. but let s just remember something the president said just moments after winning the election. a night when it seemed possible to hope that the visit tree yol of the campaign, the lies and the divisions, could finally be put to rest
all capital letters. what does trump support smell like, mr. strzok? that s an expression of speech. what i was commenting on living in northern virginia what i mean by that living in northern virginia, having traveled 100, 150 miles within the same state i was struck by the extraordinary difference in the expression of political opinion and belief amongst the community there from where i live. you described that as smell in capital letters. that was a quick choice of words. earlier you texted miss page that another part of virginia, loudoun county, which is, i think in northern virginia, is quote, still ignorant hillbillies, unquote, is that what you mean. no, sir. you do trump support toers be ignorant