Can Trump Be Stopped in Iowa?
With five weeks to go before the Iowa caucus, Donald Trump takes a historic lead in the latest Des Moines Register poll while Ron DeSantis half-heartedly criticizes him on Twitter. Congress tries and fails to reach an agreement on aid for Ukraine and border security. The president of the University of Pennsylvania resigns after disastrous Congressional testimony on campus antisemitism. A woman flees Texas after the state's abortion ban puts her life in jeopardy. And finally, United Auto Workers union president Shawn Fain sits down with Tommy to discuss the UAW's historic wins and what comes next. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
- Duration
- 1h 6m
- Broadcast on
- 12 Dec 2023
- Audio Format
- other
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(upbeat music) - Welcome to Pod Save America, I'm John Faber. - I'm interim University of Pennsylvania President, John Lovett. - That was a good one. I'm Tommy B. Thore. - And today's show, Congress's last week of the year could be its biggest yet. The president of UPenn resigns after disastrous testimony on campus anti-Semitism, a woman flees Texas after the state's abortion ban puts her life in jeopardy. And later, United Auto Workers President Sean Fains sits down with Tommy to discuss his union's historic wins and what comes next. But first, Donald Trump has somehow expanded his lead in the Iowa caucuses, which are now just five weeks away. Latest Des Moines Register poll has him at 51% up from 43% in October. Ron DeSantis is next at 19% up slightly from 16% in October. Nikki Haley's support is unchanged at 16%. Vivek Ramaswamy's at five, Chris Christie at four. And I learned from this poll that Asa Hutchinson is still in the race and polling at 1%. - That was shocking to me too. - Asa Ada Hutchinson. - Who's giving him money? - At this point, I got- - Who's picking him? - Who's picking him? Maybe one respondent, who knows? So this is the largest recorded lead this close to a competitive Republican caucus ever. Poll also shows 70% of Trump supporters say their minds are made up. You guys see anything in this poll that the Desantis or Haley campaigns might find even mildly hopeful? - Can we just, I tried. I can say no, but before we even get to that, the domination, so Trump leads every age group. He leads with Republicans and independents. He leads with people with a college degree and people without. He leads across every income bracket. He leads with evangelicals. He leads with rural people, suburban people, city people. He leads every group, even the group where he does the worst. - College educated. - He's beating Haley and Desantis in those groups.
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With five weeks to go before the Iowa caucus, Donald Trump takes a historic lead in the latest Des Moines Register poll while Ron DeSantis half-heartedly criticizes him on Twitter. Congress tries and fails to reach an agreement on aid for Ukraine and border security. The president of the University of Pennsylvania resigns after disastrous Congressional testimony on campus antisemitism. A woman flees Texas after the state's abortion ban puts her life in jeopardy. And finally, United Auto Workers union president Shawn Fain sits down with Tommy to discuss the UAW's historic wins and what comes next. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.