completely. i mean, the trump ground game in florida has been just the emblem of a dysfunctional family. there have been late in the game personnel changes. at one point, you know, their idea of a ground game was they had a couple mobile homes roaming the state at a time when the clinton campaign had scores and scores of offices. so i think this is really where you re going to see the test of ground game operation and the political machine. and having friends. marco rubio at the moment, you know, he is doing better in the polls than trump, again, within a point or two, but that s indicative of what we heard from one of the voters earlier from florida as gabe gutierrez was speaking with him, saying, you know, i m a marco rubio fan, but now i have to switch over the donald trump. again, that split that we re seeing there from the republican supporters in the state here. when you look at that bettina, how does he turn the corner on this? well, i think you bring up a
donald trump desperately needs to win north carolina. the rally so far seems to be sticking mostly to the script, the teleprompter. heard him say a new catch phrase, we have to drain the swamp. this is a key moment for him right now. i think that drain the swamp message is one he should be hitting every day from here on out. i think that is something that actually not only just works for his base and actually can begin to add some voters to his coalition at the end here. people who are so fed up with washington, that decide that he is the change that is needed. listen, north carolina is going to be a hard-fought battle from here all the way out 234that st is not going to move outside of that toss-up category. locked in. few movable voters. a huge test a huge test, of each side s ground game operation, data operation, when we see the results november 8th, wolf. and eight years ago president
former beauty queen in the middle of the night. i could go on. but he s been doing all these things. is that even a coherent strp strategy to let trump be trump if that is what it is. donald trump now serves as the head of the republican party. and what he did today in dallas, texas is he raised money for the republican party. and if you want to look at what he s done for the republican party compared to what paul ryan has done, donald trump has raised the republican party probably $350 million to fund their entire ground game operation. paul ryan has raised probably three or four our five million dollars. and that is good for him. but when it comes down to the officials and what they need. donald trump is the one who is out raising the money for them. so they should be standing behind donald trump right now. i can t fact check those numbers and i m not a big supporter of paul ryan. but he has been a republican his whole entire life and is very well regarded, respected.
races? the down ballot races, and donald trump are separating out, and what you are hearing in kelly ayotte is a mother of sort of taking away all of the political considerations, and just saying, i know what my daughter needs to hear. so i think that you will see the down ballot races, and sort of operating on their own, and now, fortunately, each senate race has its own ground game operation, and it isn t dependent on the republican national committee in any way to turn out the voters. all right. ben ginsberg, as always, thank you for helping us to understand this. great to see you. we are learning that al gore is going to be hitting the campaign trail for hillary clinton. we will talk about that with a clinton supporter. and vp nominee mike pence said that he was offended by trump s words and action, and so what happens next? you will watching the site of the second presidential debate
big deal. if i were ted cruz i would leave donald trump alone. ted cruz at the caucuses would win. ted cruz is really doing well. will donald trump let him win that without a fight? no. donald trump is going to attack ted cruz. he is going to say let them have that and i will win the secular vote in new hampshire and south carolina. nobody cares who wins iowa. huckabee, santorum, robertson did well out there. it is always seen as a bit skewed to the far religious right. correct. but to your point i don t think donald trump has any other drive than full steam ahead. i think that is his mentality about business, politics. the idea that he would say let s not spend resources here. will he start dropping the money in the month of january if he has to from everything we have seen his ground game operation is