Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast.

Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show.

Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we sit here one week until the actual first

votes are going to be cast in Iowa. We'll take some of your calls by the

next couple of hours 800 to 882 to 882. But Buck I put up a poll

question I want to get the last of it because I only allowed it for an hour

online and the final results are in over 21,000 people voted and

and Trump is your winner.

But what's interesting about this is,

what is the battleground going to look like

for the ultimate one-on-one versus Trump contender.

We know that Vavake is not going to, that would be the upset of the century for Vavake to end up as the winner.

And so Vavakes out, Chris Christie is out.

We know that we're really in a battle between Nicky Haley and Ron

Desantis to see who could be the alternative to to Donald Trump and get into that

one-v-one matchup. and get into that one v one match up.

So, DeSantis has put all his eggs in the basket at Iowa.

What does it have to look like in your mind for DeSantis to be able to claim victory in Iowa one week from today.

To me, and I'll give you my answer and then I'm curious how you would assess this.

To me if DeSantis can be buck around 10 points behind Trump

and if Trump doesn't get over 50% of the vote that would allow DeSantis if he

finishes second to have some measure of

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