2024 Campaign Trail: Ron DeSantis and Former President Trump in Iowa

“Campaign Trail 2024” was in Iowa as former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) worked crowds with less than six weeks until the Hawkeye State’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucus. Des Moines Register political reporter Katie Akin talked about the Republican candidates' strategies and their latest endorsements. This episode also includes coverage of Cornel West as he took his independent presidential campaign to Omaha, Nebraska; highlights from the 2023 Lesser-Known Candidates Forum, a quadrennial tradition from the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester; remarks from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who spoke to New Hampshire Democrats; three 1988 Democratic presidential campaign ads from candidates Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, and Michael Dukakis; and campaign ads from Democratic presidential candidates President Joe Biden, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), and Marianne Williamson. close