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Campaign event in iowa that happened just a couple minutes ago. watch. >> hi. how are you? nice to see you. good morning. >> o'rourke will be criss-crossing the caucus state on a road trip. and speaking roofds, he posed in front of one on the cover of the "vanity fair" issue. a glossy 17-page spread that dropped overnight. o'rourke telling the magazine, man, i am just born to be in it, adding, this is the fight of our lives. let's get to garrett haake in iowa where o'rourke just finished his first event. vaughn hillyard is also following him and wendy davis from texas. so you have the, i guess...

In a statement that you would, as a politician, be advised not to run a campaign that looks like that. and he managed to connect with people in a way that was really rare and quite magical honestly. and i watched him this morning as he stood in that coffee shop in iowa on his very first campaign stop. and i saw him doing the very thing there that we observed him doing in texas and that he'll do throughout the campaign. >> you talk about texas. you talk about how he pulled in republican support to a small degree there. he talked about this in the "vanity fair" spread. had a private meeting with...

After he told you he was definitely not going to run for president. >> yeah, things moving quickly out here, hallie, from the definitive no to a definitive yes. what we'll see is going to be a grassroots campaign that looks like what we just saw in this coffee shop. dropping in, shaking hands, taking advantage of the fact he does not have a day job right now. can spend a lot of time on the ground talking about issues and taking questions. he took a half a dozen or so questions from the audience here on a wide variety of issues. you saw in his answers what people like about beto o'rourke and wh...