-It's the final week until the first votes
of the 2020 campaign,
and Bernie Sanders seems to be hitting all the right notes.
Sanders turned out more than 1,000 supporters --
-We're gonna win!
-At Iowa State University in Ames,
with hundreds more in an overflow room nearby.
-I do not believe -- I simply do not believe
that the same old, same old politics
is gonna generate the excitement to create that turnout.
-I've been voting since I was 18.
I'll be 62 this year.
So, you know, I've watched Bernie's record,
I've watched what he's done in his career.
Bernie says it the way it is.
-People want change.
-Right now is a particularly significant moment
for Bernie Sanders because he's starting to show
some real strength in this race in Iowa.
He's separating himself from his competitors,
and he really, you know, with nine days left here,
has a real shot at winning this thing.
-It's been a long and spirited race in Iowa,
complicated by a Senate impeachment trial,
and there's still no clear frontrunner.
Voters here often don't settle on a candidate
until the last minute -- the very last minute.
-I'm kind of going back and forth, like, every day.
I kind of go between, like, different candidates,
but for the most part,
I'm pretty stuck on about, like, three right now.
-Most of the people I know are kind of shopping around.
The pool is still just so large,
and that is the normal consensus I'm getting from everybody,
is the pool is so large, no one knows what to do with it.
-I think I've made up my mind for Bernie.
I was debating between him and Andrew Yang.
-Some caucus goers will decide on their way
to the caucus on caucus night.
Some caucus goers will decide
when they actually get into the room.
-Go, Bernie Sanders!
-Need four to eight people to come at 3:00.
-The Sanders campaign has a strategy.
-Do you want me to put you down?
-The campaign has put a big premium on getting people
who aren't necessarily politically engaged
to join the process.
-Hi, my name is Christina.
I'm a volunteer with the Bernie Sanders campaign.
How are you?
-Their hope is that they can build an army of support
from first-time caucus voters,
from people who aren't necessarily inclined
to participate in politics.
-Who has Urbandale?
-Forwarded to an automated voice messaging system.
-Hmm. Try again.
-Let's see what's actually going on behind the issue.
-They're looking for people like 19-year-old Mara Ramirez.
She met someone with a Bernie t-shirt
who was excited about the caucus.
-So I just was like, "Okay,"
and he told me I should go, so I was like, you know,
if there's gonna be people like him,
then I'll probably go 'cause it seems inviting.
I've never been to one, for starters.
-Why?
-You know, when you hear caucus, it obviously ties into,
like, politics, and politics, from what I get out of it,
most of the time is people just not kind of getting along
and just a lot of arguing.
It scares me, kind of, just trying to,
like, be a part of it.
-Jenna Johnson is a national political reporter.
-I think this is the first time
I've had to fill up on this trip.
Iowa's come under a lot of attack lately
for being such a white state.
And there is some diversity here.
Not nearly as much as you see
in so many other states in the country.
But there is a growing Latino population here
that in many ways kind of
has felt left out of the caucus process in the past.
So there's a lot of activists here who are trying to get
more people registered to vote, get more people polled in.
-The Sanders surge has Elizabeth Warren racing to catch up.
-Hello, guys! Good to see you.
-Like Sanders, the impeachment trial
has kept her from campaigning during the week,
but she was back for a quick visit on Sunday.
-All are pulling together,
and that's how we're gonna beat Donald Trump in November.
I want to win this, and that's what I'm gonna do.
-I'm coming to see Elizabeth Warren speak.
It's getting towards the caucusing time,
and I just want to get some final thoughts, you know?
-This is no time for small ideas.
This is no time to look backwards.
This is no time for a vague campaign that nibbles
around the edges of the big problems this country faces.
-If you're not one of the top ones,
you really don't nail it down,
and then the caucusing kicks out the person you're really into,
you need to know who you're gonna go to next
or else you're kind of out of luck.
I saw people happen last caucus
that they were baffled that their candidate
couldn't get enough votes to be able to go back to them,
so I just want to make sure I know all the options.
-Annie Linskey is covering the Warren campaign.
-You know, there's an energy here that, in my sense,
doesn't quite translate to the polls,
which has her down a little bit here in Iowa,
and certainly down nationally.
But there is this sense on the ground
that she's very well organized.
-Hi.
-The campaign has come down to last looks
and courting the undecided.
Every voter has their own view of what's most important.
-Well, because Eleanor here and I have two others at home,
they're gonna be growing up in a world
that is very dangerous when it comes to the climate
and natural disasters that come from that.
-Things have to change drastically for everybody
in this country.
One big thing that's stuck with me
is are you willing to fight for someone that you don't know,
and I entirely want to be on that side
of helping everybody get to where we need to be,
'cause right now, it's not working out.
-One of the biggest issues for me is immigration reform.
Both of my parents are actually immigrants,
and a lot of people I know come from immigrants
or are immigrants themselves.
-Oh, this is such an amazing group,
and I hear we only gave you four hours notice.
And look at all of you.
This means so much to me.
We had a little break in that trial,
and I'm sitting there on the Senate floor
as I'm watching and they go, "Well, we're done."
I'm like, "I'm going to Council Bluffs."
-Amy Klobuchar is polling outside the top tier.
She needs to spend every minute she can here,
even if she can't spend the night.
After this event, it was back to Washington.
-I have been able to tackle the issues --
not just the talking points.
I've actually had the experience done, how to get things done.
So you tell people that, and that's how we're gonna win.
Thank you, Council Bluffs, for warming up my day.
-One thing that attracted me to Senator Klobuchar
is that she didn't promise the sky.
She gave us concrete examples of what she's done
as a United States Senator --
100 bills passed, being in the minority.
That's quite an amazing feat.
-The next day, it was Joe Biden in Council Bluffs.
-So great to see you all.
Thank you so much for being here.
Cleve Woodson is following the Biden campaign.
-This is Biden's third time running for president, right?
He's been an elected official since he was 29 years old.
He ran in '88.
And so it's interesting how at the very beginning
of each event, he'll sort of read the crowd.
"Is this a crowd that I should be more funny with?
Is this a call and response crowd?
You know, is this a crowd that, you know,
need to be more serious and speak, in grave tones,
about, you know, the peril that our country faces?"
-I look at Donald Trump and what he stands for,
how he behaves, and what he does,
and my response is always the same.
We are so much better than this.
We are so much better.
Democrats, Republicans, we're so much better than this.
So, I'm used to bullies.
That's where I learned to fight.
Not a joke, because here's what bullies are.
At their core, bullies are cowards.
At their core, their cowards. -So, why Biden?
-I really, really liked Obama.
And he was right at his side.
I figure he's got to be all right.
I'm so disgusted with Trump.
And I just can't even put it in words.
-So, personality matters.
-Personality does matter. -Okay, okay.
-I mean, you listen to Trump and you're just like,
"How can he be, you know -- how could you be any more evil?"
-I love Trump and I love what he stands for.
He stands for decency and patriotic, and he's for America.
He loves America, too, just like I do.
-On Thursday, President Trump came to Iowa,
a show of strength in a state he won easily in 2016.
-Oh, let's vote for Pocahontas. Let's vote for Bernie.
Let's vote for Sleepy Joe.
He's fallen asleep.
Joe, Joe.
But you have these guys, you have these people.
How about But-eg-eg?
But-eg-eg.
They call him Mayor Pete. You know why?
'Cause nobody can pronounce his name.
Nobody has any idea. But-eg-eg.
-The president's supporters like his chances,
no matter who the Democrats ultimately choose.
-They're all idiots.
No, they're not a threat to Trump.
-No, no, I just don't think they can measure up
to what he's already done for the country.
-There's just no way he's not gonna get re-elected.
-Trump was in Des Moines only a few hours,
but his presence will be felt on caucus night in Iowa
as voters start deciding who should take him on in 2020.