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The campaign strategy, we haven t heard from voters. we did get an nbc wall street journal poll indicating that this isn t really hurting joe biden. it s largely unchanged since august since we last had that in the field. shaq u, talk about senator sanders campaign. it was interesting to hear him acknowledge that he may have to make some concessions here given his health. reporter: that s right, hallie. this is a candidate who would regularly spend on a regular campaign swing have four or five campaign events and it seems like when he gets back on the campaign trail we still don t know whether or not that will be at the october 15th debate or before. but when he gets back on the campaign trail he s going to scale that back just a little bit. this is something that he called himself dumb for not listening to his symptoms and listening to his body. he said he was more fatigued in the past couple of months with the campaign pace that he was keeping up. this is something that voters ha ....
Want to be out on the campaign trail and want to engage with voters. we ll see how much he scales back once he finally hits the campaign trail again. and we ll see him at the debate coming up. he s planning to be there, right? reporter: that s right, he ll be at the october 15th debate. that s the only thing the aides say is on his schedule right now. he hinted yesterday when talking to reporters that he may be back sometime a little bit sooner. both reporting from the 2020 campaign trail, thank you. we should also know that harry smith was a new interview with senator sanders airing tonight on nbc news nightly news. up next a ruly released letter by the whistle-blower shows how stunned one official was and why he described it as crazy and frightening next. y, the way it works best for you, i ll take that. wait honey, no. ....
It shifts to mandatory public financing for campaigns. and even goes after the dnc in saying that they cannot take a corporate donations if he becomes the nominee. so it will have effect even before he hits the white house. what you re seeing is a candidate that s trying to show he s out there, resting and recovering from this situation but he s still trying to have an impact on this race. an aid and adviser to the campaign says he has nothing on the public schedule until the october 15th debate. we know that s happening in columbus, ohio. we ll continue to watch to see if he comes out any sooner. we know surrogates have been out on the campaign trail these past weekend. in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. so we ll see if sanders makes an appearance before that debate. let me ask you really quickly, shaquille, the senator entered the hospital last tuesday. the campaign waited until friday to confirm that he actually had a heart attack. that s got to be unnerving for a lot of s ....
Opizati operation is still going. you saw that earlier today when he released the money out of politics plan. it calls for constitutional amendment saying that money does not equal politics and also calling for a bid on corporate donations for the democratic national convention. that is something that would have an immediate impact, if he were to become the nominee. now, aides are telling us that senator sanders schedule is clear up until the october 15th debate. at this time we know he ll be off the trail for a few days to recover from this heart attack. but his campaign surrogates, if you look at this past weekend, his campaign surrogates have been out in force in south carolina, in new hampshire and in iowa. he s 1.3 million ad buy is back on. things are still moving along as the senator is off the trail covering in his vermont home. do we know why that ad buy ....