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MORE DETAIL IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. FIRST THIS MORNING WE’RE NOW COUNTING DOWN TO THE FINAL MONTH UNTIL THE 2024 IOWA CAUCUSES SET TO HAPPEN JANUARY 15TH, 31 DAYS FROM TODAY. ����vlog CHIEF POLITICAL REPORTER AMANDA ROOKER. HE’S BEEN FOLLOWING THE CANDIDATES ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL FOR MONTHS NOW. SHE JOINS US THIS MORNING TO GO OVER SOME OF THE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE THE GOP MAKES ITS PICK FOR PRESIDENT. AMANDA. WELL, ERIC SCOTT, TIME IS JUST FLYING. IT’S HARD TO REALLY BELIEVE ONE MONTH FROM TODAY, IOWANS ARE GOING TO BE IN BASEMENTS, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES ALL ACROSS THE STATE ACTUALLY CAUCUSING. AND WHAT STARTED AS AN EXTREMELY CROWDED FIELD FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION, NOW DOWN TO JUST SEVEN CANDIDATES, RECENT POLL SHOWS DONALD TRUMP REMAINS THE FRONT RUNNER BY MORE THAN 30 POINTS. THAT’S THE LATEST IOWA POLL THAT WAS JUST RELEASED BY THE DES MOINES REGISTER AND NBC NEWS AND MEDIACOM THIS WEEK, RON DESANTIS AND NIKKI HALEY TRAILED TRUMP IN A DISTANT SECOND, AND THIRD PLACE, FOLLOWED BY VIVEK RAMASWAMY AND CHRIS CHRISTIE, WHO ARE BOTH POLLING IN THE SINGLE DIGITS. ASA HUTCHINSON AND RYAN BINKLEY ARE BOTH STILL IN THE RUNNING, BUT BOTH POLLED LESS THAN 2% AMONG LIKELY REPUBLICAN CAUCUS GOERS THIS MONTH AND YOU CAN START MAKING PLANS FOR WHERE YOU’RE ASSIGNED TO GO ON CAUCUS NIGHT. THE IOWA GOP JUSTRILLIONELEASED, ITS LIST OF CAUCUS LOCATIONS LAST WEEK. YOU CAN SEE THEM RIGHT NOW ON THE IOWA SECRETARY OF STATE’S WEBSITE. NOW, SOME REMINDERS FROM THE PARTY. YOU MUST MAKE SURE YOU’RE A LEGAL RESIDENT OF IOWA BEFORE YOU PARTICIPATE IN A CAUCUS NEXT MONTH. AND YOU HAVE TO BE REGISTERED TO VOTE AS A REPUBLICAN. OF COURSE, YOU CAN DO THAT. THE NIGHT OF AT YOUR CAUCUS SITE. IF YOU DON’T DO IT AHEAD OF TIME, THE CAUCUSES WILL BEGIN RIGHT AT 7:00 ON JANUARY 15TH, WHICH IS MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR DAY. YOU HAVE TO BRING A VALID FORM OF ID WITH YOU NOW. NOW, IOWANS WILL LIKELY SEE A BIG PUSH FROM CANDIDATES IN OUR STATE IN THE COMING WEEKS. BOTH VIVEK RAMASWAMY AND RON DESANTIS ARE SET TO BE IN IOWA THIS WEEKEND. NIKKI HALEY RETURNS ON SUNDAY FOR A WEEK OF IOWA EVENTS AND DONALD TRUMP WILL RETURN TO THE STATE ON TUESDAY, SO STAY WITH