Hello and welcome to the Byron New York Fair, the No Chip Chat podcast.

We'd like to get right into it and what we're going to get into today is Donald Trump,

the Republican presidential field and what's going on in Iowa.

I just got back from a few days in Iowa, the first really big event of the 2024 presidential

campaign took place there recently, the Senator Joni Ernst, what's called the Roast

and Ride.

And so I wanted to talk a little bit about what is going on in Iowa and I think what

I think the sort of main themes of events out there are.

So starting with a kind of big picture, go back to 2015, Donald Trump really changed

the scale of Republican primary politics.

So in Iowa, which is the first state to vote, Trump started drawing crowds that were not

just bigger than anybody had ever seen.

They also attracted lots of people who had never participated in the caucuses before.

That was new.

And as Trump progressed, things got even bigger.

I mean, it was just a really, really big campaign compared to what had been before in the

Iowa caucuses.

It was an enormous change from old-fashioned Iowa caucus politicking.

Trump campaign was a lot, was louder, it was more contentious, it was more animated,

and it was a lot more entertaining than anything before Trump.

Trump's way of attacking his opponent, some sure you remember low energy, Jeb, it was

new to voters' ears, they really hadn't heard that sort of thing from candidates before.

...