sentence again. i went pheasant hunting with ted cruz and steven king. not as a social engagement. explain. we got our headline. i did not pick up a gun. i do not have a hunting license in the state of iowa. i do not. i got a question. what effect and this is a heavy add ver tieszing in iowa, television advertising spend in iowa. can it change the game? it can change the game. that said, it s unpredictable. i think it depends on where trump s strategy goes with the adds. you need to know who you re targeting and you need to
white house correspondent chris jansing. can i tell you you re a powerful woman. louis told me this morning keeping it all to go. keep repeating that. i think the power is in your hands. but the ceo of the national urban league mark and msnbc political correspond nt casey hunt. still with us columnist at the week, sorry, matt. matt lose is joining the conversation and political reporter for the washington post and msnbc political analyst. hope that one sticks too. it s deserved. let s start with donald trump. let s do it. he was back in iowa last night inviting reporters aboard his plane. i ll be spending a minimum of $2 million a week and perhaps substantially more than that.
trumpisms over the last 24 hours or so. i was at trump tower for a couple of hours. trump flew to iowa reporting on the campaign trying to find out what the strategy is. my sense is talking to corapoey the campaign manager and he has to take on cruz. he doesn t want to take on cruz too forcefully. trump knows how important iowa is for setting up the dynamic of a campaign going into new hampshire and super tuesday. i love the waving around of the bible like that. dond trump bulking up his campaign in iowa. casey, you ve been following the ground game and you have new reporting on that. first of all, to your previous point. i have a childhood bible. i do not have it with me. i think it takes more than waving it around if you re going to appeal to evangelicals in iowa. i think you heard from donald trump there talking about how it
votes. trump s challenge, his thousands of supporters aren t traditional supporters who can be counted into caucus on a cold february night. trump s go big strategy is too. they spent months visiting iowa s every one of their 99 counties. that s just not donald trump s style. with a dash of celebrity, she s trump s iowa co-chair and a runner up on the apprentice. donald trump can t go to a pizza ranch. he can t just walk in. take ron and sally who told
her they needed to meet trump to close the deal. they moved us through quickly for the pictures. will it be enough? maybe not. that makes the unglamorous work of organizing that much more important. but you are going to show up on february 1st to caucus. possibly. some of my business takes me elsewhere. so trump s campaign is looking at potentially unprecedented numbers of voters to try to get out. they ve set a bar of 48,000 votes. how many people caucus total in iowa? well, about 148 out of 138,000 or so depending on the year. we had a record town out in 2012. that s when rick san or the up and mitt romney came within the votes. sanatorium won with 30,000 votes. in 2008 huckabee won with 40,000 votes. that s the x-factor here. all these other conservative campaigns, ted cruz building the