Caucus Day: The Iowa Outcome Democrats May Fear The Most

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Iowa Caucuses are tonight. FOX’s Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume and FOX News Politics Editor Chris Stirewalt join the Rundown to preview the first contest of the 2020 presidential calendar and discuss who needs a good showing this evening to have any chance of securing the nomination. After years of hype, over $50 million spent on ads and countless stump speeches, the Iowa Caucuses are finally here. Cary Covington, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa, joins the Rundown to explain how the Caucuses work and why the nation’s first voting contest is so important to the process. Plus, commentary by Charlie Kirk Founder of Turning Point USA and author. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.7	I'm Greg Jera.
0:15.7	I'm Sandra Smith.
0:16.8	I'm Charles Payne and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:19.7	Monday, February 3rd, 2020.
0:25.0	I'm Jared Halpern in Des Moines.
0:28.0	It is caucus night in Iowa, but will it be make or break
0:32.0	for any of the Democratic candidates?
0:34.6	Biden to me looks like a guy who is wobbly on the ledge of a high building,
0:41.2	and he would keep expecting that he's going to go splat and it hasn't happened yet.
0:47.0	I'm Dave Anthony.
0:48.8	What happens in Iowa tonight is not at all, like when most of us vote in private.
0:54.4	It's not anonymous.
0:55.8	I mean the word caucus basically means a group of people getting together to converse
1:00.4	to make decisions as a group. It is not as a caucus is normally understood to be just
1:08.5	an election. And I'm Charlie Kirk. I've got the final work on the Fox News rundown.
1:19.1	We will start counting votes tonight in Iowa after months of campaigning debates
1:24.4	forum state fair soapbox speeches and countless handshakes and selfies
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