Can Haley, Desantis keep the spotlight after Iowa?

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Iowa caucus is two weeks — and one Republican debate — away. The crowded GOP field has narrowed down to three. Is there a miracle in store for Ron Desantis or Nikki Haley that would allow them to overcome Donald Trump’s commanding lead? Or are the two remaining contenders setting themselves up for a run in 2028?

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A Connecticut lawsuit centered around the state’s policy on transgender athletes was revived this week. The plaintiffs are four former high school runners who claim that allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports violated their Title IX rights. In another installment of our 50 States segment, we hear from the founder of an organization standing behind the students’ case.

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0:00.0	This is left right and center. I'm David Green and then there were two. Remember that crowded
0:07.9	Republican debate stage not so long ago all those candidates competing for the right to be the alternative to the guy
0:14.6	conspicuously missing. Well, the final debate before voting and
0:19.2	caucuses actually starts is next week in Des Moines, Iowa and it is just going to be two people,
0:24.9	Nicki Haley and Ron DeSantis. And really the clock is running out, right?
0:28.1	We're officially in an election year now. Voters in Iowa, New Hampshire going to be voting or
0:33.0	caucusing, and Donald Trump's lead in the polls is still robust, which
0:38.2	makes you wonder if this whole primary process was less a competition and
0:41.5	more of a coronation.
0:42.9	Sarah Isker and Moelithi are both here,
0:45.2	as always.
0:45.8	Happy New Year to you both.
0:47.0	Happy New Year.
0:48.8	Happy most arbitrary thing that we do in human civilization celebrate new year oh wow okay well we
0:56.1	we were doing I thought we do rants at the end of the show yeah yeah that's your
0:59.7	rants and ran away well come in hot and talk politics because I Sarah you were you've been here
1:08.5	before on the inside of Republican presidential campaigns you know this moment if you're inside the
1:14.7	the Haly campaign or the desantis campaign are you really thinking you have a
1:18.0	legitimate shot or are you just going through motions now?
1:21.3	Okay so let's put this into a few buckets. One, there's the backward-looking things
1:26.1	you could have done differently for the last year that would have made a marked difference
1:31.3	at this point in the race.
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