her numbers are surging. >> reporter: haley and desantis in a fierce battle for second, with donald trump the dominant front-runner. still, some new hampshire voters say they're looking to move on from the former president. >> i think a lot of people, even if they liked trump's policies, i don't think they liked the way he goes about his business. >> reporter: are you in the people group? describing? >> yeah, i guess i am. >> reporter: and during a stop in iowa today, republican chris garcia pressed desantis on why he hasn't more forcefully challenged trump. >> why haven't you gone directly after him? in my viewpoint, you're going pretty soft on him. >> i've articulated all the differences time and time again on the campaign trail. what the media wants is they want republican candidates who just kind of smear him personally and kind of do that. that's just not how i roll. >> reporter: haley and desantis both making the argument they are the republicans in the best position to deliver a win for
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>> okay. so i think a lot of us voted for trump, and i have a couple questions. one, why haven't you gone directly at him? the polls are down. he's, you know, up really high. >> what do you mean going directly after? >> i mean, in my viewpoint, you're going pretty soft on him. >> but what -- what do you think -- you know, because we -- i've articulated all the differences time and time again on the campaign trail. i think there is a narrative that -- i think the narrative is this. what the media wants is they want republican candidates to just kind of, like, smear him personally and kind of do that. that's not how i roll. >> joining us to talk about all this, politics reporter for "semafor," shelby.
decide whether they want to elect him anyway in a primary. right? primaries are closed political systems. you have to be registered as a republican and then actually care enough to want to go vote in the primary. now, we're not talking about the general ballot and trump being kicked off there. his name, he's on the path to be the nominee for the republican party, right? and that is there's nothing he could do that would make his base any happier than he's already made them. >> he's going to be the nominee. but if he were kicked off a state in the general election that would help trump politically. >> well, that's really telling because 91 federal -- or 91 indictments and counts did not affect him. but speaking of iowa in particular where it's going to be talked about 12 days from now i want to play for you a little bit about what happened when one iowa voter asked governor ron desantis what i think is really kind of the million-dollar question. listen. >> why haven't you gone directly after him? in my viewpoint you've gone pretty soft on him.
republican vi rivals ron desant and nikki haley will have back to back down halls tonight. the two candidates have been battling it out for what will likely be a distant second place as donald trump continues to hold a wide lead there. let's bring in our national political reporter. always wonderful to have you. i want to start with this moment from ron desantis' iowa town hall last night. he was asked why he doesn't attack trump more aggressively. watch. >> in my viewpoint, it is too soft. >> well, what do you think -- because i've articulated all the differences time and time again on the campaign trail. i think that there is just a narrative that -- i think the narrative is this, i think what the media wants is they want republican candidates to just kind of like smear imphim
colorado. this hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now. good morning. welcome to the top of the hour. this morning the clock is ticking for ron desantis and navalny a nikki haley as they try to close a gap with trump. tonight on cnn with back-to-back town halls. 11 days -- i told you there was a clock. there is a clock. 11 days until the caucuses. polls show trump dominating his rivals in the state of iowa. yesterday an iowa voter confronted ron desantis on the campaign trail about why he is not attacking the frontrunner harder. >> why haven't you gone directly him? in my viewpoint, you are going pretty soft on him. >> well, what -- but what do you think -- because we -- i
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