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or working more aggressively to make sure his campaign stays alive after iowa. but erin, for all of the millions of dollars spent on television ads and on strategy, it may come down to the weather and who supporters are able to get to the caucus sites and who decides to actually leave their couches. >> all right, jeff zeleny, thank you very much. when it comes to things like foreign policy, nobody would say nikki haley isn't tough. but that would be one of the gender things the former president very good at throwing out there. everyone is with me. alice, you have worked on a lot of campaigns in iowa. huckabee, santorum, cruz, two were expected to lose if you went by the final des moines register poll. trump led the find poll. romney led the final poll. even though we are in this unprecedented moment, iowa is often unpredictable. >> it certainly is. especially now mother nature is coming in, it's going to test the resolve of the turnout for
nikki haley is crushing it. she is gaining momentum. she is doing everything the history books tell us i don't have to do to win iowa or to be strong or be your party's nominee. foreign policy is an absolute must to be on your resume. and nikki haley's got it. she has a strong governorship behind her in a southern state. she's killing it. but in opposite day you have somebody like marco rubio who i actually supported early in the last cycle, and to see him come out, look, i think we're seeing what people are made out of right now. do you want to be a professional politician or do you want to be an american? and if you want to be a professional politician, and you're a republican, then you get in line, you hold your nose and say donald trump is the best, and then you go home and tell everybody you know that you can't stand him, because that's what's happening all across the country. >> totally. >> alice, what do you say to that? >> totally. >> this little marco? that's where we are? >> yeah. so many are fall -- >> obviously everyone knows that's what trump called him. >> exactly.
right now. do you want to be a professional politician or do you want to be an american? and if you want to be a professional politician, and you're a republican, then you get in line, you hold your nose and say donald trump is the best, and then you go home and tell everybody you know that you can't stand him, because that's what's happening all across the country. >> totally. >> alice, what do you say to that? >> totally. >> this little marco? right, like, that's where we are? >> yeah. so many are fall -- >> obviously everyone knows that's what trump called him. >> exactly. >> amongst many names he called other people. look, of the establishment republicans are falling in line behind donald trump. we're seeing that across the board. and that is unfortunate. but to jeff's terms of nikki haley having momentum, we're seeing she's gaining in the polls. this des moines register poll, she has gone up and others have
eye on what comes after this. of course, new hampshire, as does nikki haley. but as for ron desantis, all of his hopes are placed in iowa. there is no doubt there is no one that is campaigning harder or working more aggressively to make sure his campaign stays alive after iowa. but erin, for all of the millions of dollars spent on television ads and on strategy, it may come down to the weather and whose supporters are able to get to the caucus sites and who decides to actually leave their couches. >> all right, jeff zeleny, thank you very much. when it comes to things like foreign policy, nobody would say nikki haley isn't tough. but that would be one of the gender things the former president very good at throwing out there. everyone is with me. alice, you have worked on a lot of campaigns in iowa. huckabee, santorum, cruz, two were expected to lose if you went by the final des moines register poll. trump led the find poll. cruz won in 2016. romney led the final poll. rick santorum won in 2012.