A week out, Trump aims to avoid repeating his Iowa caucus loss

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Monday, January 8, and reports on the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump and January 6. Michael Steele, Brianne Pfannenstiel and Libby Casey join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	As we start the week let me tell everyone it is that time. Yeah you can hear it
0:09.1	this is the be with Ari Melber we're one week out from this pivotal
0:12.3	Iowa caucus the first official voting of 2024 the launch of these
0:16.7	presidential primaries candidates already barnstorming Iowa this weekend you're
0:21.0	seeing just some of what happened on your screen and for many
0:23.4	reasons these first two primary states are the pivotal and possibly last test of a
0:29.5	Republican Party deciding whether to bring its Trump past into the future.
0:35.0	Nicky Haley trying to emerge as the one alternative to Trump,
0:38.0	arguing voters can get MAGA without Trump chaos by just picking her.
0:46.0	I agree with a lot of his policies.
0:48.0	He was really good at breaking things.
0:52.0	He just wasn't good at fixing them. And now we look at the fact,
0:57.3	rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. Chaos follows him. Now that may sound like a pretty tame contrast that she's drawing but we have
1:08.7	signs that Trump views Haley now as his main possible threat. He's attacking her by name as an
1:14.0	establishment hack of sorts. Trumps pivot to Haley after months of
1:17.8	unrelenting attacks on DeSantis signals a new phase. The Times reports
1:21.3	Haley threatening not only to eclipse DeSantis for second in Iowa, but also to compete with
1:27.0	Trump in New Hampshire, where independence, of course matter more in that open primary.
1:32.0	So, candidate and defendant Trump is on notice that
1:35.9	there still is this anti-Trump caucus in this GOP and now would be the time to
1:42.2	face Trump.
1:44.0	This is the Republican Party's
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