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Donald Trump is pushing his supporters to deliver a blowout win in next month's Iowa caucuses.

What is up with Idaho’s Presidential Primary or Caucus? Are we having one or not? When is it? Where do I go? When is the deadline to affiliate with the Republican Party?

Little bit different . the democrats have a little bit of a different process. >> as in pep rally. >> thats exactly what the trump campaign is trying to do. i was out in cedar rapids with the trump campaign a couple weeks ago. they have their volunteers going into the gymnasiums and the release strength is the rallies. the scale is in some ways unprecedented. they have thousands of people available to them. the problem is many of them are new to this process. it can be an intimidating process. y...

Is very important for him to win in iowa. i think theres a growing sense as robert touched on that its a place where he needs to perform at the expectations for him. as you know, the caucus process can be kind of intimidating and the question is whether or not these thousands of people can show up. we went to rapids to try to find out. >> we have an incredible ground gain. >> if trump is going to win iowa he has to turn his thousands of fans into something less glamorous. caucus goers. >> we wan...

Dream. >> and who did you caucus for last time, way back in the day? >> oh, gosh, it would have been jimmy carter. >> i went to a rally he had in waterloo and it was just electric, and at that point, thats when i knew, hes the guy. >> have you caucused in the past? >> no, this is the first time. i didnt even know what caucusing really was until this campaign. >> that sums it up. she went to a rally, thought it was awesome and now she wants to caucus. by they have to teach these people what the p...

Mind saying, what worked for me last time? >> just going out and meeting iowans, one on one. spending time. were building up our team right now. were ahead of our schedule of where we were four years ago in signing up caucus captains. if youre sitting at 1% or 2% in the polls and people are signing up to be your caucus captain, theyre not going to leave you. >> the bad news is, in my business here, you secede at something, people imitate you. youve got ted cruise rigz tryie you, theyre all tryin...

These polls are undecided. and i can tell you "the des moines register" poll, the most recent one, 88% of iowans are undecided. that was the case four years ago. 58% of the people who voted for me in the iowa caucuses decided the last five years. >> what did you do? you must be going back in your mind saying, what worked for me last time? >> just going out and meeting iowans, one on one. spending time. were building up our team right now. were ahead of our schedule of where we were four years ag...

Campaign because that is turned into a phone calls. attempts to get people engaged in telephone town halls, attempts to get other people at other campaign events, attempts to be a supporter and become a caucus captain or a campaign county chair. all of this information is really critical. moving that along and keeping that information, that is really the goal. that is how you get your ground game going out in iowa. >> heather: who does that nuts and bolts grounding? >> they say its ron pauls cam...

Work to be done i ask all of you, take those yard signs, take the stickers off your shirt and put them on the coat so when you go to the grocery store or wherever youre going, so you can talk about it, sign up to be a caucus captain. we have about 1100, 1200 caucus captain now but we need more here in woodbury county. we need you to sign up, go to the caucuses, be an advocate for us, get up and speak on our behalf. were hearing -- i was listening to one of the -- kathy from the des moines regist...

Stuff. it is the gold of the caucus campaign because that is turned into a phone calls. attempts to get people engaged in telephone town halls, attempts to get other people at other campaign events, attempts to be a supporter and become a caucus captain or a campaign county chair. all of this information is really critical. moving that along and keeping that information, that is really the goal. that is how you get your ground game going out in iowa. >> heather: who does that nuts and bolts grou...