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99 counties, despite visiting only 15 of them. florida governor ron desantis came in a distant second, receiving 21% of support in the hawkeye state. 30 points behind trump and just 2 points ahead of former south carolina governor nikki haley. this year's republican caucuses had the lowest turnout since the year 2000, drawing around 108,000 voters. that's about 14% of the state's registered republicans. good morning. welcome to "morning joe." it is tuesday, january 16th. how did the results reflect compared to the polls? >> i think there was a big winner, and i think there was a big ...

[ applause ] >> good evening. welcome to iowa where in just 34 days, caucus goers here will cast the very first votes of the 2024 presidential race. we are live at grand view university in des moines for cnn's town hall with florida governor ron desantis. i'm jake tapper. right now, the presidential hopefuls are furiously campaigning to win over republicans here in iowa. it's a state that can make or break presidential candidates. governor desantis has visited all 99 of iowa's counties. he won the endorsement of the state's popular governor, kim reynolds. but he is facing steep compe...

♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] good evening and welcome to iowa, where in just 34 days, caucus goers here will cast the very first votes of the 2024 presidential race. we are live at grand view university and des moines for cnn's town hall, with florida governor ron desantis. i am jake tapper. and right now, the presidential hopefuls are furiously campaigning to win over republicans here in iowa, it's a state that can make or break presidential candidates. governor desantis has visited all 99 of iowa's counties, and he won the endorsement of the state's popular governor, kim reynolds. but, h...

Core republicans against the frontrunner, george w. Bush. He couldnt make a race of it. I feel like were heading to something like that again this year. Haley is likely to emerge after iowa New Hampshire as the last viable alternative to trump but done it mostly on the votes of independents. And to really make a race of this, shes going to have to give republicans a stronger argument than shes been willing to try so far. Iowa is a deeply red state, a lot of love for trump, but is iowa a bellwether, does the result portend much . Not really. Iowa has had a poor record picking the republican nom...

Points among republicans. but those numbers don't mean the country has made a final decision on this issue. we noticed another trend. a hardening of views on both sides. this poll showed a record number of people who want abortions to be legal in all cases but it also shows a jump in the number of people who want abortion to be illegal without exception. legal in all cases is at 34%. that's up three points from last year. illegal without exceptions is at 12%. that's five points higher than march of 2018. you can probably guess what's driving this movement. the partisan divide shows up in the h...