Can Anyone Stop Trump in Iowa?
Americast
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4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
With the Iowa caucus just days away, Chris Christie drops out of the 2024 presidential race. Can anyone stop Donald Trump? The team takes a look at why Iowa dominates the political conversation every four years.
Anthony Blinken is once again in the Middle East to broker peace in the region amid a barrage of attacks by Houthi rebels against Red Sea shipping.
And on Saturday Taiwan heads to the polls for its presidential elections in a vote that could shape the future of relations between the US and China.
With the help of Ivo Daalder, former US Ambassador to NATO, the team takes you inside the Americast Situation Room to monitor the biggest challenges the US faces around the world.
HOSTS: • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent
GUEST: • Ivo Daalder, Former United States Permanent Representative to NATO
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Rufus Gray and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | So Justin, as I'm sure you have noticed, things are really heating up in the state of |
| 0:08.7 | Iowa, well getting as hot as a state as cold as Iowa can possibly be. It's overrun with politicians, presidential |
| 0:16.4 | candidates making their final pitches before that all-important Iowa |
| 0:19.5 | caucus next week, but not all of them are as happy to be there as some others. |
| 0:24.0 | You know what I have to do? I have to make speeches in Iowa, |
| 0:27.0 | I have to go to work. |
| 0:29.0 | Oh, I could be home in one of those beautiful places. |
| 0:32.0 | No, but I have to. |
| 0:34.0 | Normally that would kill you. |
| 0:36.0 | Frankly, I mean you would be destroyed in the Iowa caucus, |
| 0:40.0 | the venerable Iowa caucus, |
| 0:42.0 | so important to the people of that state if you |
| 0:45.2 | dist it to that extent but hey Donald Trump is what is it more than 50% in the |
| 0:50.0 | polls is almost certainly going to win he thinks he can say what he likes and I think he |
| 0:53.7 | probably can I tell you what there are some people Sarah who are very happy to be in |
| 0:57.6 | Iowa for the caucus all of us I've just been packing we are braced for minus |
| 1:02.2 | 20 degrees Celsius. |
| 1:04.4 | Yeah, it's got worse just in the forecast has gone down. |
| 1:06.8 | Minus 22 on Sunday if you'll be there by then. |
| 1:09.3 | Minus 22. Looking forward to it, I've got a hat, I've got gloves, I've got gloves I've got underwear of a of a furry nature anyway |
| 1:17.0 | we've had a we've had a question from Katie not about the hat or indeed the underwear. She asks why is Iowa so |
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