let's go to our correspondent richard walker who is there for us on this primary day. ernoon to you, richard. so we know that donald trump, bernie sanders, both are predicted to win today in new hampshire, so who do we think is going to come in second place? richard: yes, an interesting question, brent. it is pretty certain there are only two candidates in the race on the democratic side, hillary clinton expected to come in second, and on the republican side, second place is every bit as important as the battle for the top, and as you said, the polls two-point towards a victory for donald trump. he does have a wide margin, but if he does lose some support, which is entirely plausible, given that he does not have such controlled ground operation inh new hampshire as many of the other and it its due, not such a big operation to get people to come to polling stations like this to cast their ballots, it is possible that donald trump underperforms, but many expect him to at least win, but that battle is key. it is a very crowded battle, especially with the sort of establishm

we take you now to richard walker in iowa covering the caucuses. good day to you. you are definitely in the middle of mid-america right now. talk to us about how significant the iowa caucuses are to the u.s. presidential election. reporter: i'm sure you will agree it is usually significant. for the last six or seven months, we have had a sort of phony war going on before the election really gets started. after six or seven months, particularly on the republican side, we have had this extraordinary race dominated by the figure of donald trump leading in the national and most state of opinion polls for well over six months. finally after all of that time, some actual votes are going to be cast. that is especially important in terms of understanding how strong donald trump support is because he is not a career politician. nobody really knows how solid that support we see in the opinion polls really is. brent: we report so often about the disdain in the united states for government, for the establishment, for the washington in crowd. are you sensing that in iowa? how i

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