“The southern mind cannot comprehend this.”
It’s projected to be the coldest Iowa caucus night ever in the system’s 50-year history.
There are blizzard conditions in large parts of Iowa, including not far from Des Moines, where they’re expecting 8 to 12 inches of snow. Subzero temperatures are expected Monday in the state that will kick off the process of one of the most pivotal presidential elections in U.S. history.
“I know it’s going to be negative 15° on Monday. I don’t even know what that is. That’s so, like … I literally can’t comprehend it,” former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said at a “countdown to caucus” event this week.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told Iowa voters on Friday, “I did look — Naples is a high of 78° today … Our five-year-old son is with us. A month ago, he had never even seen snow, and now he’s in the midst of a blizzard.”
Unlike regular primary voting, a caucus is an in-person event. As MSNBC’s Ari Melber put it: “Bottom line, you have to show up by getting out on the road and coming in to various buildings and community centers and schools at a very certain time at night. So, as temperatures drop and the ice hardens over and the elderly face greater risks, all of this is going to be tougher this year.”
The GOP candidates are leaning on Iowans to get out there and caucus for them.
The Iowans, however? They think they’ll be just fine.
“For the most part, I don’t think that’ll stop us,” one Iowa voter told Fox News.
“We’re Iowans. We'll come out in it,” another added confidently.
