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I never thought depression would happen to me,

but this financial struggle and feeling that you're losing this legacy

that your grandfather started,

and it just really played a lot with my mind. Good evening I'm John Yang. I'm John Yang. Tonight on the eve of the first contest of the 2024 presidential election

Republican candidates are making last-minute appeals in a frigid Iowa.

The National Weather Service is a warning of dangerously cold wind chills as low as 45 below Monday night

when Iowa Republicans gather for caucuses.

Lisa Desjardin has been braving that cold for us and joins us now indoors at Indiana, Iowa south of

Des Moines.

Lisa, in your travels around Iowa, what have people told you about this cold?

Is it going to deter them from going out to caucus tomorrow night?

And are there supporters for one

candidate who are seeing more motivated than others? Well as you can see behind me

this is a room where former President Trump spoke not long ago and it was full of Trump supporters.

They came out in negative 21 degree cold.

I can take it from being not cold.

It's a bit like having toothpicks stabbed at every portion of

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