Trump Wins Iowa Landslide
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The 2024 presidential election is officially underway.
Americast hits the road for a record breaking caucus. Destination? Des Moines, Iowa.
It’s not only the coldest caucus ever seen in Iowa, but it’s also the biggest landslide for a Republican nominee. The question is whether it’s enough to bury his main rivals Ron Desantis and Nikki Haley for good, or whether the runners up are still even in the running at all.
The gang chew through the numbers with the famed pollster Frank Luntz, and Sarah gets a peek into the Trump family business by speaking to the former President’s son, Eric.
HOSTS: • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
GUEST:
• Eric Trump, Son of President Donald Trump • Frank Luntz, Political strategist and pollster
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Rufus Gray and Catherine Fusillo. The technical producer was Darren Wardrobe. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, it's Sarah here talking to you from the Convention Center in Des Moines, Iowa. |
| 0:09.0 | All of the media trappings are being pulled apart around us as everything is being broken down. |
| 0:15.2 | We've just about reached the end of an exciting night. |
| 0:18.6 | It's almost 11 o'clock. |
| 0:20.6 | We don't have the final results of the Iowa Caucus yet, but we are a bit clearer as to what the picture looks like |
| 0:26.5 | And Anthony is right here beside me. Yeah, exactly. I think it was a very good night for Donald Trump. He is going to finish at or over the 50% mark |
| 0:35.6 | which was kind of the set bar that he was shooting for to show that he was more |
| 0:40.5 | popular than all the other candidates put together. |
| 0:43.3 | There was no clear rival who emerged because although Ron DeSantis looks like he's going to finish |
| 0:48.7 | second, he's only going to finish second by a hair ahead of Nicky Haley so there is no second place winner who can |
| 0:55.2 | take on Donald Trump head-to-head going forward in fact Ron DeSantis just |
| 0:59.0 | said he is going to keep the campaign going and then Vivek Ramaswami, we had some news from him, right, Sarah? |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah, Vivek has pulled out already. So the race is narrowing. Not that we ever thought that Vivek |
| 1:10.9 | was going to overtake any of the other main candidates, but we're going |
| 1:15.2 | into the rest of this race in an exciting position. |
| 1:19.0 | We just don't know whether Rhonda Santas or Nicki Haley are going to emerge as the principal |
| 1:23.8 | challenger to Donald Trump but we do know it's very unlikely either of them can |
| 1:28.2 | touch him. It doesn't seem like it and that plays right into Donald Trump's |
| 1:31.6 | hands. The Divide and Conquer strategy that served him so well in 2016 is still operable. |
| 1:36.7 | And Vivaki only won 7% here in Iowa, but that 7% because Ramaswami is so ideologically in sync with Donald Trump. |
| 1:45.2 | We'll probably go to Donald Trump. |
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