And I want to say exactly what I'm not done yet.

You've watched the debates, you've seen the ads,

now it's time to look beyond the polls,

and hear from voters across the country.

I'm Jimmy Vielkind from the Wall Street Journal.

I've been writing about politics for 15 years.

And even though the Republican presidential campaign's been going on for months,

and the primaries are getting underway, I've still got a lot of

questions. Will voters reward or punish the candidates who challenge the front runner,

Donald Trump? How are evangelicals looking at Ron DeSantis and other

candidates in light of Trump? We're not electing a leader of the church when we're talking

about the president of a country. And perhaps most of all why does Trump have such an enduring appeal on the right?

I like Trump, I just do.

Introducing Chasing the Base,

a new multi-part series from the Wall Street Journal.

Starting January 13th, we'll be looking at the voters who will pick the party's next presidential candidate.

I'll be traveling around the country, hearing from white

evangelicals in Iowa, union workers in Michigan who are more up for grabs than ever,

and residents far from the border who've reconsidered their support for Democrats because of

immigration. We'll also talk about whether any of Donald Trump's legal troubles

will chase away his one-time base.

President Trump has done a lot of good things from policy standpoint, but he brings so much

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