We're in Des Moines. It's great here. We're excited. We're driving to a Ron Desantis event where we may or may not get let it.

We're heading to Wauquis, which is kind of a Western suburb of Des Moines.

We're going to go see if Ron Desantis will let us into his little caucus event.

What do you predict will happen?

I predict that a stuffy Republican

staffer in khakis who looks

uncomfort like me will deny us entry once we tell them we're from the crooked media which in

hindsight was not you know the smartest name for a company if you want to go to

events like this is

is Tommy Vittor and I'm on the ground in Iowa.

This is episode 2, the race for second place. In the first episode of this series we talked about the inevitability problem.

The polls have Donald Trump so far ahead of everyone else that it feels like it's not a question

of if but when he's going to win the nomination.

The other candidates seem to have all but given up on the idea of

winning Iowa and instead of taking on Trump directly has spent the bulk of the

campaign attacking each other, battling it out for silver.

On January 15th, we will find out for sure.

But I wanted to get a firsthand look at the campaign frenzy that happens in the last few weeks

before Caucus Day, when many of Iowa's voters are finally making up their minds.

So last week I spent three days on the campaign trail, along with two producers, Caroline

and Lacy.

While we were there, Ron DeSantis, Nicki Haley, Vivek Ramaswami, and Donald Trump were

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