Trump Dominance, Christie Aversion and DeSantis Deflation: The Iowa Caucus Story Up Till Now (with Seth Masket)
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Justin Robert Young
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🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Blizzard prevents Justin from getting to Iowa and/or any campaign events happening... However we still have an interview!
Seth Masket discusses his research on the Republican Party and its decision-making process. He conducted a survey of county chairs across the US to understand their thoughts on the Republican presidential contest and the state of the party. Initial findings showed that county chairs were divided in their candidate preferences, with about 50% remaining undecided. However, Trump gained significant support after his indictments, consolidating his position as the frontrunner. Masket explores the reasons behind county chairs' support for Trump, including transactional support from evangelicals. He also draws parallels between evangelicals' support for Trump and black voters' support for Biden. Masket discusses the decline in support for Ron DeSantis and the rise of Nikki Haley as a non-Trump candidate. He also touches on the initial appeal and subsequent decline of other candidates like Vivek Ramaswamy. Masket plans to continue his research and provide updates on the candidates' popularity.
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| 0:00.0 | On this edition of the program we preview the Iowa caucus alas from afar but we do have a great interview |
| 0:09.4 | Seth Masquet of the University of Denver somebody who has surveyed Iowa for the last year, |
| 0:15.8 | surprising and interesting revelations. |
| 0:17.6 | It's all coming up. |
| 0:18.6 | This is made possible by Oh them Bones, Daily Tech News Show and Craig. Politics politics politics politics |
| 0:35.9 | politics |
| 0:36.9 | politics tomorrow still windy on Saturday blowing snow is still a concern and there may be |
| 0:55.4 | additional light snow showers so across our state today we do have a |
| 0:59.3 | blizzard warning and that does include our entire viewing area. The combination of wind, snow, and |
| 1:06.4 | visibility will create white out conditions later on today, especially in rural and remote areas outside of city limits. |
| 1:14.6 | I can't stress this enough. |
| 1:16.0 | Do not travel outside of city limits today if you don't absolutely have to because if you do, |
| 1:21.3 | you run the risk of becoming stranded later on today because some |
| 1:25.0 | roads may become impassable meaning that the drifts get so high on the highways |
| 1:29.2 | that state officials... Oh yeah that's the story as I speak to you right now Friday January 12th here on the |
| 1:41.8 | politics politics program my name is Justin Young. I was supposed to be in |
| 1:46.3 | Des Moines. Not to get into the trains, planes, and automobiles of it, but as I am going to the airport last night, I literally |
| 1:56.3 | am crossing into security when I get an alert on my phone that my flight from Denver to Des Moines had been |
| 2:05.4 | canceled. They're rebooking me. Okay, they're rebooking me for Saturday, Saturday afternoon from Denver to Des Moines. |
| 2:15.0 | All right, well, not ideal, but I'm a business traveler. |
| 2:20.0 | I know I need to get to Des Moines, so I'm going to try to get to Denver no matter what, I'll spend all day |
| 2:26.5 | to day, well, realistically I start looking at the weather forecast and I understand that a once in a generation blizzard is coming |
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