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While strong in iowa, new hampshire is a tougher place. there will be a candidate representing the kind of voters flocking to trump tonight in alabama. if you're ted cruz or scott walker or rick santorum and you thought you were going to be that guy, now you have the real possibility that trump could be the finalist from that wing and that is within the realm of possibility. >> maeve, you're speaking to the republican campaigns. top strategists, staffers. what are they saying to you? how concerned are they right now about donald trump? >> i think they're concerned in the sense that it's been v...

Busting through bureaucracies and making the state government of florida work for them. jeb needs to show what made him a great governor. and i think the challenge of running as a constituent-free candidate, i put jeb in that category, you no longer are speaking to people who have voted for you. you're no longer speaking to people with skin in the game in terms of every decision you make, in terms of everything -- jeb is not in a position anymore as he was when he was governor to rattle the cages in washington which is where he shines. so the next phase of the campaign has to be showing us how...

If i ran one of those british betting services i'd still bet jeb versus the field, but i think the more this dynamic stays the same the more that he's in this strange sort of amorphous place where he's ill defined but everybody around him is getting defined. i don't think he'll stay stationery. but right now, i can tell you and i'm sure kasie heard the same thing, nobody up there dislikes jeb but nobody up there is excited about him. it's just sort of as our friend pat buchanan would say, his support appears to be big fat nothing burger. no anger, but then again, no excitement. >> you know whe...

Jeb has the support of a lot of people in the establishment, a lot of donors. the question that you hear a lot of republican -- even people who are generally sympathetic to him, what is his base in the party? who is for him out there. and there is now whether chris christie or marco rubio or scott walker to some extent or even john kasich who is now talking about getting in there are a lot of people about to encroach on that establishment turf and he doesn't have that turf locked down even as it is, and there a lot of people making the move on that turf. so i'm not sure i'd bet jeb against the...

Sunglasses this time i'm sure. so what are her challenges going into new hampshire? we've been talking about some of jeb's challenges. hillary is really running against herself. >> and running against the press. i think she's got -- that is a challenge unto itself. but for her in particular because the clinton's relationship with the press has never been great. she believes the press corps is incredibly loss stillhostile to her. and her first week has only reinforced that in her head because she's subject to not that flattering of press coverage. they feel like that's with a rollout went well....