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Through the brush with many of these supporters of congressman king, many of whom are conservative activists in the state that you'd want to court and get to know should you be interested in mounting a 2016 campaign. so what he's doing here is really starting -- it's a slog to campaign here and to actually win. and you have to start building the networks really at the ground level. and voters here really want to hear directly from the candidate. so he's a little bit behind some others who have run here in the past. and he has to get started on that if that's what he does intent to do. what we'...

Amount of time in the sun and that's it. let's not forget michele bachmann won iowa, so if all this attention is put on iowa now, we saw what happened with her presidential ambitions. he's doing what is in his best interests. it seems that was his government strategy. shutdown strategy, get some attention off of it. but republicans have a lot of work to go ahead and fix their brand, no doubt. >> and in a way, nobody loves ted cruz more than the democrats, chris, because of what he has done to the republican brand. and i think there are optimists who think the shutdown provided a democratic ope...

Be in the important 2016 caucus state of iowa. he's headlining the state gop's ronald reagan dinner. in an interview, cruz would not say whether he'd be willing to shut down the government again as leverage in the looming budget deadlines. quote, there will be time enough to talk about specific strategies and tactics. but of course polls show the shutdown strategy torpedoed the republican brand in just one month losing ground in key demographic groups from women to seniors, independents to white college graduates. let's bring in republican strategist susan del percio, democratic strategist, ch...

Trying to delay the individual mandate. that's the next fight. they sort of lost the fight on defunding and getting rid of obama care, but delaying the individual mandate is going to be the next big fight that republicans push into the new year, especially if they can't get these problems resolved and you see a trickle of stories continuing to come out. >> chris, i want to the give you the final question. these comments from dick durbin on facebook, who said, quote, many republicans searching for something to say in defense of the disastrous shutdown strategy will say president obama just does...

Finger wagging and second guessing over his shutdown strategy, senator ted cruz takes a victory lap back in texas. and a very good morning for washington, it's tuesday, october 23rd, 2013, and this is the daily rundown. i'm kristen welker in for chuck todd. the markets have been flying blind for more than two weeks waiting for the september jobs report, which was delayed by the shutdown. we finally got that report this morning, but it's not moving wall street much one way or the other. take a look. 148,000 jobs were added in september. below what analysts had expected. but we also saw the unem...