as george w. bush said. this might about window how he s going to govern. in that surrogates. delegating? is that what you think it s going to be? what it sounds like. we ll see going forward. and a lot of people say that isn t sufficient. somebody working with the house speaker, you heard that ten seconds where house speaker ryan talked to donald trump and he came out and said, you know, very excited. he said that twice in ten seconds about getting the work in 2017. your read on that one? what did you think? house speaker paul ryan is someone who during the campaign certainly had differences with trump. i think he is elated to see republicans have not just control of the house but the senate majority. ready to move on, get to the next level talking about policies. paul ryan is a poly wonk. i covered him, he was mitt romney s he s nerdy? ready to get into the weeds of being able to push forward
put together the most comprehensive infrastructure to win back the white house. in 2012, michael, we had 876 staff between us and the romney campaign. we now have 6,012. that s an exponential amount of people out there. last cycle we did 11 million voter contacts. this cycle we re on pace to do 17 million voter contacts. there s a reason that the absentee ballot and materially vote are up for republicans in the battleground states. our ground game, our data, our infrastructure are helping up and down the ticket. there s a reason when all the media said we re going to lose the senate and potentially hold the house, now we re talking about strongly maintaining the senate, keeping the house and winning back the white house. i disagre with the professor that you mentioned earlier. he ll go 49 for 51. you ve got every one of these states closing in and mostly all states that obama won twice and should be strong blue states, colorado, michigan, wisconsin, new hampshire, virginia, states that
better ground game and better data operation because the problem is in the distension that people don t get, the democrats keep building operations for one candidate. we build operations for entire party so that everybody up and down that ballot whether you re running for city council, president of the united states sean, thank you. you have the data. sean spicer, thank you. now for a different perspective, eight years ago at this time david axelrod was the chief strategist for barack obama and on the verge of electing him president. thank you for coming out to play on a saturday. good to be here. you heard him say among other things, look, we think we re performing better than romney was four years ago the d s are underperforming as compared to barack obama. is it that simple? well, no. first of all, let me say i m here as senior commentator for cnn not as a surrogate for the democratic party. let me give you an objective view of someone who has been involved in this pro
with three days to go before the election, everybody s nerves are a little frayed. i have three very calm folks here with expertise to lend their credence to the debate. kevin madden, spokesman for mitt romney s 2012 presidential campaign, patty doyle, former bush 43 white house and rnc staffer paris denard who supports donald trump. at the outset of the program, kevin, sean spicer was pretty much saying, look, we re outperforming where you are, the romney campaign in 2012 and the clinton campaign is not keeping pace with where obama was, which sounds pretty simplistic. it is that straight forward? i think the rnc ought to get a lot of credit. they invested a lot of time. you remember the 2012 infrastructure was well, it didn t win. the rnc realized they needed to do more to improve upon it. they invested the time, the resources and effort and tried
i m taking public transit and voting in the morning and i know my polling location. so, i can get a reminder straight to my phone, straight tamy pocket on election day to tell me to go vote. reporter: volunteers are pretty much done to persuade voters to vote clinton. we re just focused on the turnout right now. reporter: translation, team clinton knows exactly who her voters are. now it is making sure those voters actually cast their ballots. dana bash, cnn, washington. let s talk about the specifics of this. how do the campaigns get reluctant or tired or disengaged voters to the polls? let s ask cnn political commentator and former senior adviser to president obama dan pfeiffer and kevin madden, a senior adviser to and spokesman for mitt romney s 2012 presidential campaign. gentlemen, great to see you. great tasee yo see you, too. good morning. you are part of the legend that was get out the vote for