‘Intense’ US blizzard derails final leg of Republican caucus campaigning in Iowa • FRANCE 24

With more on how the icy spell could affect voter intentions here’s Fraser Jackson our correspondent in Washington Monday Iowa is expecting its coldest caucus ever with a heavy dumping of snow over the weekends before temperatures hit a record low of Min -30° C on Monday beating a record which

Has stood for over 50 years now it’s raising questions about whether the voter turnout will be at the expected levels for this caucus it should be said that levels normally are lower than they are for primaries and caucuses than they are during the general election uh but GOP officials Republican officials still

Think that they will have a robust turnout candidates however have been forced to adapt Nikki Haley and Ronda santz have taken some of their town halls and their rallies online uh so that people don’t have to Traverse dangerous conditions some uh meteorological forecast saying that they are quote life-threatening uh conditions

Uh and in some rural uh parts of Iowa uh these precincts which have very few people uh can have their votes swayed by just around 10 or so people so turnout really could be a wild card here uh some voters could also become complacent if their candidate is too far ahead in the

Polls or too far behind Trump is still massively ahead of both Nikki Haley and Ronda Santos so we’ll see what happens on Election Day which is Monday the 15th of January

Plunging temperatures, whipping wind and buckets of snow derailed the final stretch of caucus campaigning in the US state of Iowa Friday as Republican presidential hopefuls delivered their last pitches to voters.

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  4. The fact someone can try to stage a coup d´etat and still´s able to run in elections´s mindboggling.

  7. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s immigrant Palestinian parents had 14 children. Family on a mission to occupy USA.

  8. This weather is unprecedented. Theres a good chance we see good voter turnout. We need it to get the dems out of control and return free speech to our citizens

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