Severe weather in Iowa complicates race for Republican nomination
Severe weather in the US state of Iowa is hampering the final days of campaigning ahead of the first big even on the US election calendar. Donald Trump is being challenged for the Republican presidential nomination by several high-profile candidates. But the former president appears to have a commanding lead, despite his legal woes.
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00:00 Iowa is freezing cold. There have been blizzard warnings in place and the forecast for here
00:07 in the capital Des Moines is for temperatures to get below minus 25 degrees Celsius. That's
00:15 complicating the campaigning in the final stages of what is the first big test in the
00:23 US election year.
00:25 Iowa is the first state where Republicans will have their say on who they want to take
00:31 on Joe Biden at the presidential election in November. And if the polls are correct,
00:36 there's one person with a massive lead, Donald Trump.
00:40 The former president is considered the frontrunner despite facing all sorts of legal problems,
00:46 including 91 criminal charges in four separate cases and attempts to stop him from running
00:53 in certain states. But many of his supporters are still planning to back him in what's known
00:58 as a caucus here in a couple of days time. And they say even if he became the nominee
01:04 and then was convicted in any of these cases, it wouldn't affect their vote in November.
01:11 Not mine. But I'm pretty confident that's not going to happen.
01:16 Why is that?
01:19 Just because the charges are trumped up. So, you know, I think he'll be proven to be not
01:26 guilty.
01:31 Other Republicans want to see Donald Trump's political career come to an end. They're throwing
01:36 their support behind his main rivals, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis or former United Nations
01:42 Ambassador Nikki Haley.
01:44 Donald Trump is just too polarising. I don't think he can lead our legislators on Capitol
01:51 Hill. They just have too much against him. I think it's time for a change.
01:55 The weather has forced candidates to cancel or rearrange their events. And it could also
02:01 have a big impact on who actually turns out to vote this week, meaning there's a lot of
02:07 uncertainty in this race in what is going to be a really unpredictable year ahead.
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