and Trump prompts in Iowa and Iran

Iran to Iran hits back at President Biden.

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if you don't like what you hear here please forget I said anything so Jim we got our Iowa

results were not surprising Trump all the polls show Trump around 50 and Nicki and Desantis close in the upper teens or maybe the lower 20s.

So Trump indeed gets above 50%. He's at 51.

Desantis at 21 and change and Nicki at 19 and change

a little bit behind Desantis? You know what the question is going to be, Jim?

What do you make of it?

Well, Rich, I can origami, so I can make a pat, I can make a teredactyl. I've wanted to do that airplane joke for quite a while

and we might as well do it because the surprise of the night was that there were no surprises

you know for weeks or months I've been saying that, you know, the Republican, roughly half the Republican Party is hell-bent on nominating Donald Trump for another term.

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