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Romney where i was absolutely positive that pennsylvania was going to be in play with such a great rally. and absolutely fell flat. so crowd sizes, i don't look at. polling, i do. we were talking in the break about what makes one of these campaigns really great. and there's this new york times profile on kamala harris's campaign from staffers about how the candidate was a little too twitter driven. focused on the room and by playing to the room, she wasn't playing to the folks at home. it skews left. it's much more educated and affluent. it's not representative of the electorate broadly. you k...

Up on? >> i saw the same thing i saw with barack obama. large crowd sizes, people dedicated to a mission. but barack obama, it was hope and change. for donald trump, it's that the country is messed up right now, and a lot of corruption going on, that the rich, powerful, the elite play by different rules and we want to send someone with a bulldozer does tear it down. two different missions about the same energy but haven't seen them from any other candidate, from the republican side, from the democrat side right now. if you combine all the crowds together, it wouldn't equal a donald trump rally...

Democratic presidential hopefuls making their pitches in one of the biggest moments so far in the 2020 race. 13 of the 17 candidates giving speeches at an iowa dinner known for making or breaking campaigns. cnn's jeff zeleny is in des moines. jeff, good evening to you. good to see you. it's a big dinner that could have huge implications for the race going forward. who has gotten the biggest reaction from the audience? >> reporter: don, good evening. there's no question that with about 13,000 or so iowa democrats here watching all of the candidates, they are looking for what the candidates are ...

Campaigns. cnn's jeff zeleny is in des moines. jeff, good evening to you. good to see you. it's a big dinner that could have huge implications for the race going forward. who has gotten the biggest reaction from the audience? >> reporter: don, good evening. there's no question that with about 13,000 or so iowa democrats here watching all of the candidates, they are looking for what the candidates are saying but also the strength of the crowd sizes that all the candidates are building. and it was one of the biggest moments of the evening just a couple hours ago when pete buttigieg, the mayor of...

That are there and the political goal, but then even like the moment of bringing up the little league champions. b this is -- this is -- the sense of americana that are at these rallies, compared, charlie, to what we saw outside in minnesota yesterday, it's a -- it's a serious juxtaposition that is troubling. how would you put that when it comes to how the american people are seeing -- like almost two different americas unfolding? >> it's a phenomenal point, tammy. and look, these rallies are less political and more cultural than anything else. the people that attend these rallies, they feel t...