The Trump campaign announced this morning that it has canceled its event with Kari Lake because of the winter weather blanketing Iowa.

"For the safety of our guests, due to continued winter weather, Kari Lake’s Remarks to the Trump Supporters of Marion County in Pella, IA this evening has been cancelled," the campaign said.

Lake is running for Senate in Arizona and previously ran for governor of the state. 

ANKENY, Iowa — DeSantis suggested Iowans may have “more impact” than usual this caucus season, saying their support will “pack a punch” in the event of a low turnout Monday night. 

Pushing ahead with his morning schedule despite an intense snowstorm bearing down on Iowa, he told the crowd at the Northside Conservatives Club breakfast in the Des Moines suburb of Ankeny, “I don’t think you’ll ever be able to cast the vote that has more impact, given the circumstances,” referring to next week’s forecast of sub-zero temperatures. 

The DeSantis-aligned super PAC Never Back Down has canceled its first two events with the Florida governor as a blizzard plows across the Hawkeye State, with the status of the final two stops still in question.

The Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, has endorsed Trump for president, saying in a tweet this morning: "Joe Biden has turned calm into chaos, competence into incompetence, stability into anarchy, and security into catastrophe."

In a statement released by Trump's campaign, Matt Schlapp, CPAC's chairman, said, "‘Now is the time to unite and support the candidate who best can accomplish what is needed to put America back on track. CPAC enthusiastically endorses Donald J. Trump for president of the United States."

Days before the Iowa caucuses, National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Richard Hudson said that he expects Trump to be the party's presidential nominee — and that it will pose opportunities and challenges for GOP goals of expanding the House majority.

“I assume he will be the nominee,” Hudson told reporters yesterday. “I think he will turn out voters that don’t turn out otherwise. I think the presidential year turnout model is better for us, which didn’t always used to be the case. But I think the nature of our voters — they’ve become more working class, they are less likely to turn out. I think the presidential year is going to bring more of those folks out. But I think Trump will also draw out voters to help us with turnout.”

But it’s not all positive. Hudson, without criticizing the ex-president, noted that Trump may not be campaigning in states that have battleground districts, and that he may lose some of them.

The South Carolina Democratic Party announced this morning that Biden will headline its “First in the Nation Celebration” dinner in Columbia on Jan. 27, one of several stops he is expected to make in the Palmetto State a week before the first sanctioned Democratic primary.

Of note, the party says that two other candidates on the Feb. 3 ballot, Rep. Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson, were invited to attend the event as well. If either did, it would be a rare — perhaps the only time the sitting president would appear at a political event with his two main Democratic challengers for re-nomination.

One-time GOP presidential hopeful Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., made his non-endorsement of Haley this morning on social media, citing “her record and campaign” and promoting a website to the same effect, nevernikki.net.

While this appears to be the cycle’s first non-endorsement, it is not exactly surprising given Paul’s politics and Haley’s own resume, for example, on issues like the role of the U.S. on the world stage, among many others.

"@NikkiHaley supports Biden and McConnell and the forever-war crowd on funding for the war in Ukraine," Paul wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, in a series of posts outlining his reason for opposing her nomination.

As of now, Ramaswamy says he plans to continue with his campaign events across Iowa today despite the snowstorm and blizzard warnings. 

"We’ll continue to every last one for as long as we can *physically* make it," he said.

Haley and DeSantis both altered campaign events today across snowy Iowa. Haley switching to tele-town halls and the DeSantis PAC Never Back Down canceling two stops set for this afternoon. 

All the focus on the race for second place in Iowa between DeSantis and Haley has overlooked what could be the biggest storyline Monday — besides the subzero temperatures. 

If the polls are correct, Trump is on track to smash the Republican record for largest victory margin in a contested Iowa caucus.

The current record is held by Bob Dole, who defeated Pat Robertson by 13 points in the 1988 caucuses. 

The Republican presidential candidates are once again battling winter storm conditions in Iowa three days out from the caucuses.

Haley will host tele-town halls in place of the three in-person events her campaign had scheduled for today. DeSantis canceled two events in the state, but still plans to hold three others. Ramaswamy and Hutchinson are also slated to campaign in Iowa, while Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake is set to hold an event for the Trump campaign.

Elsewhere, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is making two stops in New Hampshire today. And Robert F. Kennedy is holding a rally in North Carolina.

Biden is also traveling to the battleground state of Pennsylvania today for a White House event.