Iowa caucus live updates: Trump leads polls as 2024 Iowa caucus approaches

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : "We're going to caucus and we're going to do great," Trump said.
63% : Trump "will deliver his Vision for America Live from Iowa on Saturday, January 13, 2024, at 6:30PM CST," the campaign said in an email.
62% : --Mike TrautmannTrump headed to Iowa to give a speech Saturday eveningThe Trump campaign announced late Saturday afternoon that the former president is en route to Iowa and will give a livestreamed speech in the early evening.
58% : "I'll get to see you on Sunday and Monday, and maybe Saturday night late," Trump said.
55% : Trump also plans to speak Sunday at a mid-day "commit to caucus" rally in Indianola.
55% : Trump said he hopes the judges "see this.
54% : Trump said he would try to get to Iowa on Saturday night, and would be in the Hawkeye State on Sunday and Monday.
52% : "One way or the other I'm getting there," Trump said in a video posted on social media late Friday by him and members of his campaign team.
50% : Trump, who still has a traditional rally scheduled for Indianola on Sunday, said he wants to make sure his people get to their caucuses on Monday despite the weather.
47% : I just think she'll have a better chance of winning over Trump.
45% : The poll will measure caucusgoers' first and second choice for president among Trump and five competing candidates, including: Texas businessman Ryan Binkley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy.
43% : ‒ David JacksonTrump promotes endorsement from Sammy 'The Bull' GravanoWhile waiting to fly to Iowa, Trump on Saturday promoted a most unusual endorsement: Former mobster Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano.
40% : "Republican Judges are very often afraid to do the right thing," Trump said in his post.
31% : Security there tackled one protester who unfurled a banner reading "DeSantis: Climate Criminal" and shouted the phrase as he was removed from the event, along with asking DeSantis "how much money are you taking from oil companies?"
30% : "‒ David JacksonOn the legal front: Trump's classified documents trial may get delayedThe weekend before the Iowa caucuses brought favorable legal news for Trump: Another sign that his federal trial for mishandling federal documents will be delayed from May.U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon denied a prosecutors' motion to compel Trump's legal team to disclose details about lawyers call his "advice-of-counsel" defense.
29% : Trump did not specifically mention the U.S. Supreme Court by name, but did rail on "Republican judges" as the justices consider efforts by some states to keep him off the president ballot.
23% : Zac AndersonTrump appears to lobby U.S. Supreme Court over state ballot access caseAs snow blankets Iowa, Donald Trump appeared to use his Truth Social media site Saturday to campaign against the U.S. Supreme Court.
21% : DeSantis is also battling Haley for second place in Iowa, and is far behind her and Donald Trump in polls out of New Hampshire, which holds a primary on Jan. 23.
15% : ""Thank you to Sammy the Bull," Trump said in a post that criticized New York-based judges in the civil bank fraud and defamation cases pending against him.
14% : On his Truth Social account, Trump re-posted an interview in which Gravano said he tried unsuccessfully to influence Trump back in the day: "I tried to get to him; he just wouldn't bite.
10% : "April told DeSantis she traveled to Iowa from out of state to volunteer for his campaign, prompting DeSantis to remark that his GOP primary opponents Donald Trump and Nikki Haley don't have that kind of committed volunteers.
9% : As the Associated Press reported: "Reed said that given the 'complexity of the issues' in the case and other factors, it was reasonable that Donald Trump be forced to pay lawyers for the Times and the reporters a total of $392,638 in legal fees.
8% : "Trump has expressed similar sentiments on the campaign trail while discussing his appeal of last month's decision by the Colorado Supreme Court; the state court ruled last month that Trump is ineligible for the presidential ballot because of the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021.
1% : "‒ David JacksonOn the legal front: Trump ordered to pay NYT reporters nearly $400K in legal feesIowa pre-caucus weekend also brought Trump some bad legal news: An order that he pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees to three New York Times reporters he had sued.

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