What did Trump’s Iowa victory reveal about the political landscape?

KCRW's Left, Right & Center

KCRW

352865, News

4.2 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Donald Trump’s path to the GOP nomination kicked off with a win in the Iowa caucus this week, which some media outlets announced early. One key to his victory was outperforming among demographics he struggled with in the 2016 primary. Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are looking to regroup before New Hampshire, but will they be able to overcome the trends that emerged from the decisive results we saw in Iowa?

Israel’s war against Hamas passed the 100-day milestone. New dangers have emerged along the country’s border with Lebanon and in the Red Sea. The Israel Defense Forces say they are committed to fighting on all fronts, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is against the possibility of a Palestinian state post-war. How receptive are Israeli citizens to Netanyahu’s leadership as regional conflict becomes a greater threat? Haviv Rettig Gur, senior analyst at the Times of Israel, provides an Israeli perspective.

The Supreme Court will hear a case out of Oregon that could change how local governments address homeless populations in the western United States. Is there a search for compassion in the arguments?

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey there, so I have a quick favor. We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful
0:05.3	if you could take just a few minutes to participate.
0:08.1	Visit survey.PRX.org slash LRC to take the survey today. Once again that is survey dot PRX
0:15.6	dot org slash LRC. Thanks a lot.
0:20.3	Welcome to left right and center everybody I'm David Green. Maybe you heard
0:24.7	voters in Iowa handed a victory to Donald Trump. Maybe you heard those
0:29.3	results before Iowa voters had actually voted. The result was so expected that news
0:35.3	organizations called the race in Iowa before voters had listened to speeches
0:39.0	from their neighbors in community centers and town halls and you know gone through their beloved
0:43.7	process of caocusing. This infuriated some of the campaigns who were battling to
0:48.8	defeat the former president like Ron DeSantis who came in a distant second like Nicki Haley who came in a more distant third and
0:55.5	Vivek Ramaswami who now that the dust well or the snow has settled in Iowa
1:00.3	He's dropped out and has endorsed Donald Trump ahead of the next voting in
1:03.9	New Hampshire. Here on left right and center we never call a race early. We do have two
1:08.7	very smart panelists who have been through many an Iowa caucus night and many a New Hampshire primary.
1:13.8	Actually, Sarah Isger is in New Hampshire speaking to us.
1:17.7	That's how committed she is to covering this stuff.
1:19.7	Sarah is senior editor at the dispatch and she's a lawyer and was spokesperson at
1:24.3	the Department of Justice under President Trump and now she is reporting from
1:28.1	New Hampshire and we have Mo Alethi who I have spent time with in New Hampshire around the primary when he was working for Hillary Clinton
1:35.4	and I was covering her back in the day. Mo is now executive director at Georgetown University's
1:39.6	Institute of Politics and Public Service. Don't you both love this time of year? I do.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KCRW, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of KCRW and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.