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Change this with trying to -- unseat around johnson. mondale has to get through his primary. so, he joins me now. joining me now is mandela barnes. thank you sir, for being here. mandela, i want to ask you, you still need to get through the primary. you were the front runner as of right now. what is the big challenge that your campaign is facing right now? >> thank you so much, tiffany, for having me. the campaign is doing incredibly. well one of the biggest challenges is having people on both sides who can write themselves unlimited checks and sums of money. this is one of the biggest problem...

Of in my space talking about immigration reform, from a big state like texas that julian castro would need to do well in, especially with the latino voters, as seems to be his play, so he went after beto o'rourke. which was a smart strategy. >> yeah. >> so, yeah, i think that makes a lot of sense. now you have one less californian in the race and he doesn't, you know, there's no competition there for kamala harris, assuming that there was any real competition. >> yeah, absolutely. and super tuesday, california's in it. let's talk about money. >> super tuesday. absolutely. >> the big haul by el...

Covering the tea party movement back in its early days in 2009. and i think i just cold called him help had posted something on a tea party list about -- there was a competing tea party group going around the country claiming to be the tea party but it was run by a gop political action committee and a bunch of consultants. and so he had posted all this stuff about what they were doing and how they were raising money from people who thought it was a grassroots operation but then they were spending it on consultants and really expensive continuers at steakhouses and things like that and he was r...

That empowers the staff to succeed, i know he has done that on the battlefield and done that as a chief military aid to cabinet secretaries but i know he's done as a cabinet secretary. we have great faith that will be done. nothing about our outgoing chief of staff who should have a hold his head high as he exits. many great things happen in the first six months during his ch i think reince priebus will gond down as the most successful and longest-serving rnc chair wheree as chair there was a great dell of money and it improved grassroots operation that allowed the republican party to succeed....

The situation we're in, part of that is because we've allowed state parties for the past decade or so to really, to fall apart. we haven't poured the resources into those parties so that they can go out and do the grassroots operations that are so important to get voters educated, mobilized, and to the polls. and so, he invests into state parties, we will start to take that next step forward in order to rebuild the party. >> isn't the challenge that we're dealing with gerrymandered seats, and a lot of the congressional seats are going to be difficult unless the democratic party can really get ...