Decision 2024 Caucus Countdown Special

The Rachel Maddow Show

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4.5 • 34K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Maddow and her prime time MSNBC colleagues look ahead to Monday's Iowa caucuses and discuss Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis debating, Chris Christie dropping out of the Republican primary race, and Donald Trump's Fox News town hall.

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0:21.1	Good evening and welcome to tonight's special coverage. I'm Rachel Mato here at the MS NBC Mothership with my colleagues Joy Reed and Lawrence O'Donnell and Jen Saake and Ari Melburg. Great to have you all here.
0:22.5	Our friends Chris Hayes and Alex Wagner
0:24.6	and Stephanie Rule are all going to be joining us later.
0:27.2	It's going to be fun.
0:29.2	We're less than a week out from the Republican presidential
0:31.8	caucuses in Iowa.
0:33.5	The last Iowa Republican debate is underway tonight
0:37.9	with oddly a sort of random selection of two
0:42.0	of the remaining five Republican presidential
0:44.0	candidates taking part in that debate. If you can right now name all five
0:50.2	remaining Republican presidential candidates off the top of your head without
0:54.4	looking anything up.
0:56.2	Congratulations and also you need to get out more.
0:58.9	But two of them are debating tonight, Nicki Haley and Ron DeSantis.
1:02.5	Also tonight, two miles away from that final Iowa debate,
1:06.2	Fox News conducted a live town hall
1:09.1	with the front-running Republican candidate
1:11.3	who, of course, has refused to participate in any debates at all this year
1:15.2	but who has been very busy appearing in courtrooms in the many many many cases in which he is currently a criminal or civil defendant.
1:25.0	The biggest news of all tonight, both in Iowa and in the race at large,
1:30.0	is that the Republican field shrunk tonight from six candidates to five with
1:36.0	the surprising but not shocking news that Chris Christie has dropped out of the race.
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