Greetings everyone. I'm Steve Hayes, an editor at the dispatch joined by Sarah

Isker, a senior editor at the dispatch.

We're happy to have you here.

I am not actually in a hostage video,

although that's what my lighting looks like.

I am here in a hotel on the border of South Carolina and North Carolina.

We have somebody who's been talking to South Carolina voters.

We're going to bring in people who are working and covering the race in Iowa.

We're later going to go to somebody on the dispatch staff in New Hampshire, and

we're going to bring in several of the people who know a lot about this stuff too.

But we're going to start with Sarah, who comes to us with experience in politics, active politics,

on presidential campaigns and spend time in Iowa has worked at the Caucasus and writes the collision newsletter for us about

the intersection of legal and politics, what's going on in the law, law enforcement and politics, which is especially relevant this time around.

Sarah, how are you?

I'm good and I've been talking to Iowa voters too. I had dinner with a couple Cedar Rapids voters a couple nights ago.

Well that's as good a place to start as any. What do they tell you?

Are they excited?

Are they active Iowa voters?

Do they care about this?

Most Iowa voters do, but will have a small fraction of the state that shows up to the

caucuses tonight.

Yeah I mean in some ways this is a good example because this voter has met with every single major Republican

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