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Legislature takes power away. so in some ways what you are seeing happen here this month is a continuation of ordinary practice in north carolina. >> reporter: the governor-elect accused republican law makers of trying to thwart his agenda on education, health care and the environment. >> the way they are doing this is with these laws that move people into positions who are going to be making those decisions, and i don't think the people of north carolina want that. >> one of the big x fak fctors publ public backlash. >> reporter: some democratic lawmakers say this legislation goes beyond poli...

Beginning. but that doesn't necessarily translate and ultimately into dominating the votes. that was the big x factor about barack obama in 2008. turned out he had an equally good ground game going along with the air game, and he was able to pull it off but we don't ne that about trump yet. it is a big unknown whether he has that has that or not. if he has this, i think he'll take this one in a waltz. if he doesn't have it, the emperor's clothes are going to come off right away. >> i've got to cheer both of you guys up. we're talking about a happy new year. judith is expecting a trump implosio...

Beginning. but that doesn't necessarily translate and ultimately into dominating the votes. that was the big x factor about barack obama in 2008. turned out he had an equally good ground game going along with the air game, and he was able to pull it off but we don't ne that about trump yet. it is a big unknown whether he has that has that or not. if he has this, i think he'll take this one in a waltz. if he doesn't have it, the emperor's clothes are going to come off right away. >> i've got to cheer both of you guys up. we're talking about a happy new year. judith is expecting a trump implosio...

Marco rubio, of course, has to get through this republican primary. and it is still a very interesting thicket there. sara's absolutely right about one thing on the donald trump phenomenon. he's not grown as much. he's basically been staying right below 30% here. if he is to close it deal and win the republican nomination which he certainly could, he needs to coalesce that support from other republicans in the race. >> sara, two other headlines here for people. one is that he's doing this the cheap way, trump. he spent $217,000 on ads so far. and look, let's be honest, a big reason why is us. ...

>> but rubio's momentum brings with it closer examination of his own money management. and that includes his use of a florida republican party charge card. over the weekend, the rubio campaign released two years of records, showing over $7,000 in personal charges, on what was supposed to be a card for party business only. campaign says rubio paid american express directly for those charges. the payments were often late, either because rubio or the party fell behind. totally up delinquency charges of over $1,600. all of this giving rubio's rivals an opening to challenge him on his fiscal manage...