Republican voters got their first glimpse of what 2016's Republican presidential primary races might look like this weekend when leading conservative figures from across the county flocked to Des Moines, Iowa for U.S. Rep. Steven King's annual "Iowa Freedom Summit. The first major gathering of the party ahead of the 2016 cycle -- and the unofficial "kickoff" of the Republican primaries -- the event was attended by a handful of the dozen prospective presidential candidates currently said to be weighing bids for the nomination.