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by laura, publisher and primary author of bleeding heartland, joining us to just the democratic plan for the upcoming caucuses in the state of the primary field and of the gop caucus. good morning. guest: good morning. host: hopefully you are somewhere more because we have heard about how the weather is being -- in iowa. remind us of your website. what do you focus on, on bleeding heartland? guest: state government come the state legislature, campaigns and elections for federal office is, state or even local government. we cover social issues, environmental issues -- i am the primary author, but i published more than 100 people every year. a wide range of authors.

host: let's talk about what we are seeing in isla right now. what does campaigning look like in iowa this season? what does it look like, especially with the weather that we have been hearing about? guest: i'm very sad about the weather because it will keep some many hoi was hoping to seeg turnout and this is one of the unfortunate things about a caucus is that you have to be present in person. the democrats i changing things a little bit, but the heightened picture in des moines is supposed to be minus nine fahrenheit. the high temperature tomorrow will be about minus four or minus five.

that is not even taking the windchill into effect. it is pretty scary out there. a lot of people canceled events because of the weather. i do not think we will have anymore storms, but the cold is very extreme. i know the former president is going to have a rally later today and indianola, but i went to his last rally and we waited in line outside for about an hour and half. it is not safe for people to wait in line outside the that. host: do you see where someone might have an advantage where they would not have in normal weather? guest: i think it will depress turnout for everybody. there will be a lot of people supporting candidates who will stay home.

but i think it helps donald trump because we see this in poll after poll. we see, again and again that trump supporters are the most enthusiastic, most excited about participating in a caucus. if anybody will drag themselves to the saying it will be trump supporters. i think that the weather gives a slight advantage to nikki haley over ron desantis for the race for second place because nikki haley seems to be coming on strong in suburban areas. well-funded city governments -- you might have to drive quite a ways. i think that could be an issue. it will affect all of the candidates, but probably best in the urban centers.

there are still quite a bit of republicans who live there. host: has the weather affected candidates coming in to do door-to-door politicking that we know that they love to do in iowa? guest: certainly. we have had a pretty mild winter until now. we have not had many cancellations. there have been a lot of events that have been canceled. itors.

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that the caucuses that will happen tomorrow will be reported correctly? >> it is funny that you say that because donald trump actually finished second to ted cruz in the 2016 caucuses and he went on a rant about how it was rigged against him. there was a fairly clear margin between trump and cruz. in 2012, the republicans had a

bit of a fiasco because rick santorum and mitt romney ended up finishing very close. the final margin was something like eight and they had difficulty getting results for the last few precincts which could have been enough to change the outcome. it depends how close it is. if it is a squeaker maybe. the way things are looking omicron iowa, trump is so far ahead of the rest of the field i don't think there's going to be any question a■bout who one cow the caucus. is it possible someone could complain? i guess. you are reminding me of the 1980 caucuses which everybody remembers. george w. bush winning over ronald reagan. there were people who felt reagan's numbers were undercounted because of precincts that came in very late. ronald reagan never went around complaining the election was

rigged. >> has iowa done anything to ensure people have confidence in the caucuses? have they made changes where they can show we have done something so the country can have confidence in the way we are doing this? >> these are run by the state parties. not election officials and the secretary of state. i have noticed when i have been at republican events they have emphasized the republican party caucuses are going to have people when it comes to the presidential selection, who write down the name of the person they support on a piece of paper. those are going to be counted in front of everybody. that is something the republican party does that they want people to have confidence in the result at every precinct level. paper ballots. we hear from trump a lot there should be paper ballots.

there is going to be paper ballots and they are going to be counted on site for everybody to watch. >> let me remind our viewers they can take part in this conversati. your number is going to be host: -- is going to be (202) 748-8000. we are opening a special line for iowa residents. tell us about what you are seeing, what you are hearing with the upcoming caucuses. we want to hear from you at (202) 748-8003. iowa residents, (202) 748-8003. you can always text us and we are always reading on social media on x at cspanwj. once again a lot of the attention is on the