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In spite of his campaign. his campaign was a real shoe string operation. we all covered it. we were out there on the trail. i mean, it could barely do the basic functions of campaigning. now he has all this power. he's going to try to flip the script and try to sort of intimidate any potential challengers by saying, look at this show of force i have. >> do you think the campaign's in good hands with brad parskel? what does your reporting tell you? >> very close to the president, definitely has the president's ear. i can tell you he spent all day on friday at the white house, and of course that...

Florida as the washington and the advisers point out. >> it's a test of the tactics and the political operation of the trump campaign. this is the first place where they have really seen them -- where they have tried to deploy the text messaging operation. they put out texts to republican voters who haven't cast ballots. rented out the list to ron desantos one of the first placed where trump campaign rented out the list of 18 to 20 million contacts to raise money and the florida voters to try to get them out to vote. clearly it's important to the president, not just symbolically but also heade...

But purely from a business perspective, governor, isn't he getting a loft votes for his money? >> there is no question but that in a campaign, one of the things you have to recognize from day one is that you need to organize a financial operation to make sure you can run a campaign. by the way, i've had also herman cain to battle. rick perry to battle. tim pawlenty to battle. there has been a long process and ultimately, if i become the nominee, i'm going to be going up against president obama and he's put together an organization and he says will raise a billion dollars. we have to have a nom...

Perspective, governor, isn't he getting a loft votes for his money? >> there is no question but that in a campaign, one of the things you have to recognize from day one is that you need to organize a financial operation to make sure you can run a campaign. by the way, i've had also herman cain to battle. rick perry to battle. tim pawlenty to battle. there has been a long process and ultimately, if i become the nominee, i'm going to be going up against president obama and he's put together an organization and he says will raise a billion dollars. we have to have a nominee with the capacity to -...

Events get run properly and make sure for example that you can see the candidate or that there's a place to go in it starts raining. rick santorum's campaign doesn't have that. abc news reporting this week on the degree of shoe stringiness of rick santorum's shoe string operation. he has no official headquarters. he has no pollster. he has no advance staff at all. and before monday of this week, three days ago, rick santorum had no press secretary. mr. santorum even jokes about it on the campaign trail. >> we have done this -- i would say we've done this on shoe string but that would be insult...