Caucusing Up A Storm
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Iowa caucuses are here. Former President Donald Trump is in the lead, according to the most recent Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa poll. He has the backing of 48 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers. Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley is in second place with 20 percent, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is in third place at 16 percent.
Meanwhile, it is bitterly, bitterly cold in Iowa with a wind chill warning in place until after the caucus on Tuesday. And it’s not just Iowa – an arctic cold outbreak is set to bring record-setting, too-cold-for-comfort temperatures all over. Daily records for this time of year could be broken from coast to coast.
And in headlines: Sunday marked 100 days since the Israel-Hamas war began, John Kerry will step down as the U.S. special climate envoy, and the Supreme Court agreed to take on cases that will impact people experiencing homelessness and workers’ rights to unionize.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, January 15th. |
| 0:03.4 | I'm Travel Anderson. |
| 0:04.7 | And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What a Day, |
| 0:07.1 | the pod that's happy to commemorate MLK Day with you. |
| 0:09.5 | As for how not to commemorate MLK's legacy. |
| 0:13.1 | Don't be like actor Jonathan Majors, okay? |
| 0:15.8 | Invoking the civil rights legend and wife |
| 0:18.4 | while fending off assault and harassment charges? |
| 0:21.8 | Let them people rest and be. |
| 0:23.4 | Coretta Scott King is somewhere like, how I get in it? |
| 0:26.6 | Why am I involved? |
| 0:28.6 | On today's show, nearly the whole country is gripped with dangerously cold weather, |
| 0:36.2 | plus what we think tonight's Emmy ceremony should do to have a bit more fun. |
| 0:41.7 | But first, today is the first day of the rest of our lives, or maybe the end of our lives. |
| 0:46.6 | It is the Iowa Caucus, the first act in the circus that is the presidential election season and the winner is honestly |
| 0:55.2 | anyone's guess actually that's a joke we pretty much know who will come out on top |
| 0:59.8 | this Republican primary the question at this point is who will come in a far, far second. |
| 1:06.4 | Yes, there definitely are a few unknowns about today's caucus, but the winner definitely is not one of them. So first |
| 1:16.2 | just tell us, ripped the band-aid off, how significant is Trump's lead at this point. |
| 1:22.1 | It is significant. It is a serious lead. He has |
| 1:28.0 | far and away in first place. The final Iowa poll by the Des Moines Register, |
| 1:31.6 | NBC and MediaCom |
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