Frontrunner. Ron desantis, tim scott in contention. You have five others in the conversation and the rest are on the outside looking in. Dana former president is dominating on endorsements and racked up more than 80. The rest of the field is splitting a dozen between them. Bill ron desantis has billed himself as the one candidate best equipped. They side with the former President Trump. Dana the first debate giving candidates a chance to turn the tide. This is what voters want to hear. We have to fix the border. This Migrant Situation is insane. If somebody doesnt address and really fix the situation i think were really seeing a lot of america in decline. Were so divided right now. The person that can communicate that message to say im going to lift everybody. We need a stable economy, immigration is a big issue, put our veterans first. Common sense policy. A president with strong business sense to be able to negligent for america. Dana josh holmes has analysis. We begin with Alexis Mcadams in iowa. Hi. Thats right. Feeling right at home here in iowa. We can tell you that this morning senator tim scott breaking into the top three in those fox news Power Rankings just released. We caught up with him and asked him why he thinks he is moving up in the polls. Because of his common sense conservative policies. Listen. Do you think you will be able to move up in the rankings . The good news is we continue to move up. More importantly i dont spend time watching polls. I spend all my time watching people. Polls dont vote, people do. I want to spend my time getting to know the average person in the state even better and so far, so good. Our momentum will continue to increase every day. This morning donald trump remaining the clear frontrunner. The former president leading by 30 to 40 points in most National Polls followed by ron desantis in second place. The Florida Governor remains the main alternative to trump and in most National Polls tim scott is a distant third but the only candidate to pull double digit support in more than one state according to the fox poll. Campaign fundraising is key to win this race. Trump Reigns Supreme on that, too. Desantis getting money from large individual donors and racking that up but also spending a lot with his campaign. One of the major donors is now getting cold feet. That was a different story for tim scott with more than 53,000 unique donors who gave smaller sums. Scott has just moved over 22 million from the senate campaign. Lots of cash on hand and using it to focus spending big money on tv ads in iowa and New Hampshire and seen him on the ground. Vivek ramaswamy and nikki haley and mike pence are in the conversation. A busy campaign for everyone at the state fair in iowa. Trump, desantis and scott worked the crowds to win over the voters this weekend. They are playing close attention. I think these voters take it really seriously. They Pay Attention to whats going on in the campaigns and polls. Every candidate, bill and dana, accept donald trump wants voters to know its early in the campaign and National Polls for the 2024 republican primary but not that early for long. The caucus in iowa is on january 15th. Back to you. Dana all right, thank you. Bill want to show you a little bit where the Republican Base is right now with donald trump. This is from the new york times. Third week of july, okay . A little less than a month ago. The maga base, those within the party who will never leave donald trump was listed at 37 . The persuadeables is 37 . You have 76 of the party who would be with donald trump. The nontrump was 25 , a full quarter of Republican Voters that they surveyed found they would not vote for him. Lets go back in time and see how that relates to the polling that we had done. Go back 7 or 8 years. This is august of 2015. This is cleveland, ohio. The night of the first Republican Debate where donald trump was on stage and 25 million americans tuned in. We found would you vote for trump . 33 said never on our fox polling. Five months later iowa caucus this is where we are. Refuse to vote for trump. That number is cut in half in january of 2016. So how did he do as president . Did he persuade Republican Voters who might have been suburban voters on the fence . October 2019, well into his term prior to covid now, that number was down to 15 as well. Who refused to vote for him. Josh holmes walks the halls of capitol hill is with us now, good morning to you. Where do you think this Republican Party is today as they reflect on Donald Trumps potential candidacy . You guys did a terrific job laying out the numbers. I love the historical look back on where were at with Republican Voters who said they wouldnt vote for trump. Thats an important number. Also that 60 plus of voters out there on the Republican Party say they are still sort of open for business. There is no question that donald trump has a very, very big lead here but i spent the week in iowa and talked to a ton of people. If there will be something that disrupts where this thing looks like it is headed today, ground 0 starts in iowa. I think what i found there is that there is an awful lot of voters still shopping around. They want to see the debate next week. They hope donald trump shows up to it. They want to see these candidates in action presenting their views. Were still relatively early on here. So i think there is a lot of road in front of us when it comes to determining who the republican nominee is. Dana a couple more numbers here, josh. Call for number two is power ranking Favorability ShowsPresident Trump at 60 favorability with moderates. 88 approval with conservatives. It goes down from there for the others. But strong maga President Trump at 99 . You have the other candidates saying what about us . Were likable, too. Wanted to ask you about the question we opened with, which is desantis has been saying im the strongest general election candidate. For the viewers the voters that you spoke to this week in iowa, are they thinking about the general or are there are they really focused on the primary . People in iowa are definitely focused on it. Im not sure that is nationwide. There is an a. P. Poll out this morning that i think sort of illustrates the dill emma the Republican Party is in. 70 of voters who have a favorable view of donald trump. But overall its in the low 30s. The number that stuck out to me this morning is 64 of the american electorate when you combine people who say they will never vote for donald trump and probably not going to vote for him. Thats a massive number for somebody who is known and known well and is a former president. So i think this is what the Republican Party needs to grapple with. Whether ron desantis, tim scott, nikki haley or somebody else, they will have to make that case to Republican Voters. I think the numbers bear out that case whether they personally are the alternative or not is where this thing needs to be settled in the primaries. Bill one last question, josh. If you pick up the Wall Street Journal today, you will see a quote in there from a retired woman in iowa who ran a beauty salon. You see the quote . Ill read it to you. She said i will vote for the guy with the most indictments. I thought it was clever. Which leads to the question as to trumps strategy. Thats really the point of the piece. How does he fold these court cases into his campaign and can he ultimately, as the piece points out, use it to be effective for him . I think donald trump benefits from republican anxiety about the way that the Justice Department has handled everything from russiagate through the Hunter Biden Situation and the indictments of donald trump. People are looking for way to fight back and not getting it out of the Department Of Justice or biden administration. Right now donald trump is that vehicle. You heard that quote. Its so perfectly illustrates exactly where a large number of Republican Voters are. They say you know what . The heck with it. If you will have two systems of justice i will support the guy on the conservative side who is the target of your ire and thats where i think youve seen since the first bragg indictment Donald Trumps numbers spike. Whether or not that holds and whether that water gets too heavy for voters to carry closer to iowa in january remains to be seen. Dana could some of these candidates benefit in milwaukee next week if President Trump doesnt show up . No question. It will provide more time. I think we always forget because were political junkies and listened to the stump speeches. This is the first big prime Time Opportunity for all these candidates with a much wider audience and somebody is going to take advantage of it. I guess well have to tune in and find out who. Dana well see you there in milwaukee. Great to see you in the great state of wisconsin. Talk to the mayor of milwaukee soon as well. Thank you. Thank you. Dana lets say one more time. The first Republican Debate is one week from today august 23rd in milwaukee 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Martha maccallum and bret baier are the moderators and well be there too. Americas newsroom is going on the road in milwaukee august 23rd and 24 and do the preshow before the debate and more on this coming up with milwaukee mayor johnson. He is a democrat and welcoming republicans to town. Well talk to him about it. Bill then we wanted to figure out how is this candidacy determined, right . The big nomination that is about to really with the state fair and the debate and were off and running. Over the next six months if you go back to 2020 by Super Tuesday more than 80 of the democratic field had dropped out. It was Bernie Sanders and joe biden Still Standing at that point. In 2016 more than 70 of the republican field had dropped out. That is Super Tuesday. Its early march. Thats the forecast over the next six months. Dana did mayor pete drop out before Super Tuesday . Good trivia on the fly. Can he answer . Bill im not sure. Dana i think he stayed in. Well check on that. Bill which republican was still in in 2016 other than trump . Pass. I dont know. Bill stay with us and well get you answers coming up. We want to go to hawaii. The death toll there is rising again. Growing criticism rises as well. That criticism is about the governments response. When will the president visit. The most deadly wildfire to hit the u. S. In more than 100 years. Wide open question as we see the devastation yet again. Plus there is this, roll it. 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Fox weather correspondent max gordon is live in maui. What are we looking at now local time 3 19 a. M. I do believe. Good morning. Good morning. So much heartbreak on this island. Still no official word to why these fires started. New Cell Phone Video shot the morning of the fire might shed some light. Headsup. It is on the ground right there. Downed power lines in lahaina, a fire burning and winds whipping. This was a scene earlier on the same day a wildfire ravaged the town of lahaina. They allege the Utility Company ignored Weather Warnings and kept their lines electric try filed in high fire danger. The death toll is soaring into the triple digits. Biden administration announcing onetime payments to 7 hundred to families impacted by the fires. Volunteers continue to step up to help the fire victims at food, water, other supplies arrive on the island. Many people now have no homes or jobs. One group has created a list of 900 gofundme accounts so people can donate to families impacted by the fires directly. It is really beautiful to just see hawaii come together. If there is anything that hawaii knows how to do is how to show up for their community. Theyve lost everything. Theyve lost their house, they havent found most of their families. It is really sad. It hits all of us emotionally. The road behind me the Road To Lahaina is opened up to residents. One small sign of normalcy returning to an island that has dealt with so much heartbreak. Bill well see you again another day as the sun rises in a few hours. Thank you, max, nice to have you on the ground there. North korea giving its first Public Comments on travis king. According to state media king said he wanted to seek refuge in the communist country and admitted to illegally crossing into north korea because of Racial Discrimination within the u. S. Army. A lot more we need to learn about his story. Hopefully we will in time. 21 past now. Dana a new jersey judge says he will rule shortly whether teachers must tell parents if their kids are asking to change gender identity. Nate foye following the story from New York City. You were on the story all day yesterday. How did it turn out . Were still waiting right now. Parents are awaiting the ruling which could come at any moment and could stretch out for a few days. The Vice President of the New Jersey Board Of Education tells fox news this morning this case is only scratching the surface of the states concerning education agenda. Another policy passed two weeks ago divides students into Sex Education courses, not based on their biological sex, but based on their gender identity. If you have a young boy thats expressing as a girl, he would go into the girls class and poor young girls. A sensitive topic enough. They will sit there and talk in front of a boy about these sensitive things . It doesnt seem right. Again, teachers are not required to tell parents if their child changes gender identities. Thats why we saw 100 parents turn out at yesterdays hearing. The parents told me they elected School Board Members to represent their values. But the state maintains its guidelines are misunderstood. A statement from the new Jersey Attorney Generals Office reads in part quote, to be clear, the state has never sought and never will seek a ban on parental notification. What the state wont do is require it. That is something