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Because thats where electorate is. is he only a grass roots guy? >> i think he is a grass roots guy. kamela harris was effective in the first 24 hours of her candidacy raising money. like i say, i think beto orourke should he get in, he displayed in texas the last go-around a huge ability to raise money from small donors and online. i think several of these candidates will be very, very competitive in terms of their ability to muster grass roots support. i will say as they campaign across iowa, ...

Fiorina and carson he is willing to take them on. he sees a real competition for that outsider vote come january or february i am not sure when he goes on the air waves. there are no bio spots, he was clear about that. well see negative ads, not really an introduction. >> no bio ads on the life of trump? ill do that. let me ask you, in terms of the nuts and bolts that he is planning on, we did see the caucus ideas, a concrete idea where he will try to win. when you look at what he is trying to d...

Campaign, it comes out of the koch brothers idea, the campaign manager came directly from being a grass roots guy from the koch brothers. he comes to work for trump, if you look at trumps network its full of the grass-roots volunteer type campaign. >> meaning the implication, those people have come from politically planned training. >> very true for example, in the iowa campaign, rick santorums former campaigner, a non-conventional campaign but backed up by a koch campaign. >> thanks, rachel. ...

Ballot, the other things he is doing in terms of organizing. do they seem skilled or organized? >> i think one of the most under-reported parts of the campaign, it comes out of the koch brothers idea, the campaign manager came directly from being a grass roots guy from the koch brothers. he comes to work for trump, if you look at trumps network its full of the grass-roots volunteer type campaign. >> meaning the implication, those people have come from politically planned training. >> very true f...

Alan west joins us. >> thank you. >> greta: was a good for florida to host this convention? >> i think a great thing for florida to host this convention. were hosting final debate in boca raton. >> helps be the swing state. >> it helps to be a swing state. were make sure were going to swing it in the right direction. >> greta: do you, are you stats fied? your a tea party -- is that a. >> im a grass roots guy. >> greta: g are you 100% fats saths fied with your ticket? >> i am. when you look at th...

Alan west joins us. >> thank you. >> greta: was a good for florida to host this convention? >> i think a great thing for florida to host this convention. were hosting final debate in boca raton. >> helps be the swing state. >> it helps to be a swing state. were make sure were going to swing it in the right direction. >> greta: do you, are you stats fied? your a tea party -- is that a. >> im a grass roots guy. >> greta: g are you 100% fats saths fied with your ticket? >> i am. when you look at th...

Alan west joins us. >> thank you. >> greta: was a good for florida to host this convention? >> i think a great thing for florida to host this convention. were hosting final debate in boca raton. >> helps be the swing state. >> it helps to be a swing state. were make sure were going to swing it in the right direction. >> greta: do you, are you stats fied? your a tea party -- is that a. >> im a grass roots guy. >> greta: g are you 100% fats saths fied with your ticket? >> i am. when you look at th...

Recently left the group for pursuit of this broader agenda of a custom solution for community restoration. give us a sense, if you would, about why you are making the decision to sort of shed an identity that has great currency for you and has some issues for you as everyone identity does. msnbc does for me. and i think all of us. why are you making this decision? >> really for me, it boiled down to philosophy. im a grass roots guy. i was just at the state capital with a bunch of tea partiers. a...

This that still leave us in the balance for seeking gains as well against republican positioning. >> shannon: a lot of nuance to the numbers. >> thats correct. >> lets look at the hard numbers and how they seem to be in favor of the gop because so many of this is controlled at the state level. 36 state legislatures handle the state districting. some it is a combination. right now republicans control 25 state legislatures. 8 divided, democrats control 16. the governors split 29 republican, 29 dem...