Trump’s Domination and the Battle for No. 2 in Iowa

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🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

At the Iowa Republican caucuses on Monday night, Donald J. Trump secured a runaway victory. The only real drama was the fight for second place. Reid Epstein, who covers politics for The Times, takes us inside one of the caucuses, and Shane Goldmacher, a national political reporter, walks us through the final results. Guest: Reid J. Epstein, a politics correspondent for The New York Times, and Shane Goldmacher, a national political reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily.
0:05.0	On Monday night, the 2024 presidential race officially began with the Iowa Caucasus, where the real drama was the fight for second place.
0:17.0	Today, Reed Epstein takes us inside one of the Caucasus and Shane Goldmocker walks us through the final results.
0:30.5	It's Tuesday, January 16th.
0:34.0	Ladies and gentlemen, read Epstein.
0:39.0	Hello, Michael.
0:41.0	Nice to see you.
0:42.0	Mr. Caucus himself. Is that what I'm being called? Hello Michael. Nice to see you.
0:43.0	Mr. Caucus himself.
0:44.0	Is that what I'm being called?
0:45.0	That's what I saw.
0:46.0	That's what I saw on the internet.
0:48.0	So, Reed, I want to set the scene for our listeners.
0:51.0	It's 4.35. here in Des Moines and in about
0:56.2	two and a half hours Republicans across Iowa are going to caucus and we are going to
1:01.8	join them but before we do that we want you to
1:04.2	describe what that's actually going to look like because the last time we did this and
1:08.2	we did it with you four years ago we focused on the Democratic caucus because it was a competitive caucus.
1:14.0	Donald Trump was the president at the time so the Republican caucus wasn't really
1:18.6	the sources of much interest. That's reversed this time around. We are most interested in the Republican Caucus.
1:24.9	So tell us what the Republican Caucus
1:28.6	is actually going to look like.
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