folks like bob vander platt who endorsed desantis will say trump is not the right person to lead evangelicalers in the right direction. he is not good for the party. definitely a couple different schools of thought. that is something we try to report a lot and something a lot of folks and journalists report on. host: jerry is in brooklyn, arkansas. caller: how are you doing today? host: good. caller: thank you for trying to be honest and open with your reporting. it is a pleasure that we are able to do that in the u.s. it is storming here so if i get disconnected, i apologize. i want to say thank you because sometimes you don't get that. thank you, too, ma'am. i think it is games. if people will get out and vote with what their gut tells them, i think we will get the president we deserve. stop playing childish games and vote with your gut. i just want to see thank you again and have a great day. host: david in new york, democrat line. are you there? go right ahead. caller: i always just to hear donald trump say things are rigged, but what i am saying is this whole primary thing looks great b

[applause] our own bob vander platt. [applause] my friend and governor, kim reynolds. [applause] casey desantis. [applause] and of course, the reason we are all here, the next president of the united states, governor ron desantis. [applause] ♪ gov. desantis: good afternoon, iowa. thank you to everybody who has showed up today and in the last several months, been working hard this last year, working hard to make sure the people of iowa know who the next president of the united states is going to be. i've been talking about my kids, i have a 14-year-old son and a 12-year-old daughter, they are at home in texas in they had a 4h show yesterday and my son eon best showmanship -- son won best showmanship. [applause] i want to make sure my son and daughter can look up to the man in the oval office. as we've been going around the state, it is very clear the people of iowa recognize the man they want to look up to in the oval office is governor ron desantis from florida. [applause] when i ran for congress five years ago, i ran on securing the border, making sure we restore what

evangelical steve deese, iowa governor kim reynolds, the conservative iowa conservative leader bob vander platt, he has endorsed ron desantis as well as deese and kim reynolds endorsing desantis, the new york times put out an interesting article and they said many christians have expressed second thoughts about their frustration before donald trump and the first baptist dallas and the theological height man, where does that stand today. a lot of times they assume their monolithic vote, let's go back to 2016, ted cruz ended up winning iowa largely because he did get a lot of the even jell-o global, the reason donald trump is it a better position that he was then, quite frankly donald trump did the things the evangelicals wanted a president to do, he focused on religious liberty, he showed real interest in taking things to israel that have never been done, moving the embassy, getting abraham acc accords, frankly evangelical voters are middle-class voters, they care about the cost of gasoline and groceries, they care about energy and whether or not were energy independent or were going over their

folks like bob vander platt who endorsed desantis will say trump is not the right person to lead evangelicalers in the right direction. he is not good for the party. definitely a couple different schools of thought. that is something we try to report a lot and something a lot of folks and journalists report on. host: jerry is in brooklyn, arkansas. caller: how are you doing today? host: good. caller: thank you for trying to be honest and open with your reporting. it is a pleasure that we are able to do that in the u.s. it is storming here so if i get disconnected, i apologize. i want to say thank you because sometimes you don't get that. thank you, too, ma'am. i think it is games. if people will get out and vote with what their gut tells them, i think we will get the president we deserve. stop playing childish games and vote with your gut. i just want to see thank you again and have a great day. host: david in new york, democrat line. are you there? go right ahead. caller: i always just to hear donald trump say things are rigged, but what i am saying is this whole primary thing looks great b