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Keeping scott pruitt versus replacing him with someone else might point more towards replacing him. >> all right. ken vogel and susan dell purseo, thanks to both of you. grassroots efforts are going digital as more and more americans are jumping into political activism for the first time. chris jansing joins up with a website helping democrats trying to flip districts. >> there's an opening. we talk human to human about why having a democrat in this district affects not just their neighbors in their own district but neighbors in neighboring districts that your vote will help my family even tho...

Every time i go out and meet another democrat and they say thank you so much for coming, i can't wait to vote. >> add to that swing left manpower, money. they set up innovative district funds. you donate to a district, not a person, and the eventual primary winner gets the cash. in cal 25, that's katie hill. >> it is my great pleasure to hand over this check from the grassroots. >> thank you so much. >> you beat a slew of other people on election night. how much money did you have left? >> we had almost nothing left. we spent pretty much down to zero. >> the group gave her $164,000, with more ...

Whitehill. after donald trump won, he felt just like these folks did. >> i was feeling, you know, despondent and depressed. >> reporter: like new yorkers he lives in a deep blue congressional district in western massachusetts. >> i was looking for a place where i could make a difference, and i found a new york 19 just across the border. >> reporter: he also found out that 75% of americans have a congressional swing district within 50 miles and believed that if he could convince those blue district democrats to help out in their nearest winnable district the house of representatives could swing...

Year or so coming up here almost every weekend. >> reporter: he's not alone, the website launched the day after the inauguration. by the end of the first weekend 200,000 people had signed up. today,up. today it's pushing 400,000. volunteers like steve and melinda. >> my husband said let's have a party. i said sure. he put out the invitation. we got a lot of people really quickly, then we got over 100. we had to move from our house down to the church. >> you got 100 people? >> almost 200 people. >> people just waiting for a way to channel their frustration into action. >> how many of you guys a...

>> might be able to lay out -- >> who wins in the swing district of all swing districts. >> blue district. >> i think paul ryan gets elected in a district if i'm not mistake than dukakis won, that gore won, that clinton won -- >> the scrutiny -- >> that obama won. >> analysis around him would be positive. i don't know if they choose him or not. they're not calling me. but we could easily find ourselves next week or ten days from now looking at another poll. i think the most important poll that will come out now between now and mid-october is the one after the first debate. a lot of independent...