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welcome to "inside politics" live from iowa. here we go. the first vote of the 2024 presidential election are tonight. after months of rallying, tens of millions in campaign ads, voters will finally have their say. and in the last few hours, candidates are scrambling to reach as many of those voters as possible. >> you have to get it done quickly. we have to set the stage. >> think of the fact that you might be making history in this moment. >> we are the nation's best days actually still be ahead of us. >> here in iowa, you have the ability to change the trajectory of american polit...

>> joining me now by phone, political reporter and iowa aficionado tom beaumont. nice to have you. >> thank you, kate. >> let's talk about your take on iowa first. okay? a lot of questions about trump's ground game there, whether the supporters really turn out, whether the people that say they like him will show up and caucus. how do you characterize trump's iowa operation? >> it is hard to tell. he has people running the campaign with experience running statewide campaigns. his iowa director chuck laudner ran santorum in 2012 and he won and we forget because mitt romney declared the winner bu...

Facilities. he has 250,000 emails from his time as governor of florida. he has been an avid e-mailer for decades and says he will have the best digital campaign in the business. his emphasis on transparency to a lot of folks amounts to sort of a bank shot at new jersey governor chris christie. christie is waiting on the feds to wrap up the george washington bridgegate scandal investigation. in the meantime, he has been building a team and stepping up his policy briefings. he is also sending a major message himself, not to be outdone. he says he will attend the very first candidate cattle call ...

Presidential candidates, every time we pick a new president and the straw poll is the first sign of how they handle that great power and that great responsibility. and then come the iowa caucuses. actual election night. the iowa caucuses are run by the parties and not by the state government and this past year on election night, in the all-important first in the nation iowa caucuses to choose a republican nominee to run against president obama, the chairman of the iowa republican party made the announcement late after midnight on the night of the caucuses that mitt romney had won, wow, romney ...

The straw poll is the first sign of how they handle that great power and that great responsibility, and then come the iowa caucuses. actual election night. the iowa caucuses are run by the parties and not by the state government, and this past year on election night in the all-important first in the nation iowa caucuses to choose a republican nominee to run against president obama, the chairman of the iowa republican party made the announcement late after midnight on the night of the caucuses that mitt romney had won. wow, romney wins iowa. seriously? no, actually a couple weeks later same guy...