Christian science monitor. Our guest today is ronald mcdaniel, chair of the National Committee. This is her first appearance in a moderate breakfast and we are especially pleased to have her as she represents the thirdgeneration of the Romney Family to appear at her breakfast. Re ms. Mcdaniels late grandfather michigan governor George Romney was our guest several times back t was that guest in the third monitor breakfast. We are now over 3900. 1956. And of course your uncle mitt romney now senator from utah has also chaired with us several times. This is the special welcome to you. Now with his background as she grew up in michigan and go start in the Family Business early by helping her mother campaign. 1994 senate campaign. After graduating she moved to dc and work for your a Consulting Firm and eventually return to michigan and got involved in in 2012 her uncle mitt romney president ial campaign, and then the public and National Committee woman from michigan and 2014. In 2015, she was elected chair of the Michigan Republican party. During 2016 makes mcdaniel serve as a delegate to Republican National convention for your donald trump. And soon after his victory she was elected to succeed as rnc chair. She has been there ever since. Which brings us to todays practice. Now for the ground rules where on the record, but please note live blogging or tweeting. In shortrt no filing of any kind while the breakfast iss underway. And then once the session ends at 10 00 oclock and margo. We will email pitcher to this breakfast and all reporters here just as soon as we wrap up. And as you know if youd like to ask a question, please send me a signal and i will call on as many of you as time permits. Now missus mckenna and if you would like to make brief opening remarks, the floor is viewers. It. Thank you for your having me, i did not know the history. Who that is very special read mnr perspective we are already gearing up for your 2020. Say a lot of people dont totally understand what the party does is something i run into a lot. Obviously, we are here to look for your republicans its going to be a very broad field for your us in 2020 with 23 senate seats of the republican side. We want to take back the house and obviously reelect. President donald trump. The first thing that we have to tdo is raise the funds to be able to put a ground game and program together. As youve seen, the rnc has succeeded a lot of our past fundraising goals and october alone, we raise 25 million. It brought us to a total of a hundred 94 million for the year. In the record. What weve been able to do with those funds is put ourselves in 18 states early. When ground game, and we do that, we wanted director on the ground and really work with our volunteers. The whole focus of the rnc is the tactical nuts and bolts organization of how do we engage voters and change their minds. And it takes a long time to build out a structure where you can train 2 million volunteers which is our goal for your 2020. Onand funny scene we had 750,000. This is the tradition of mine i started as a delegate, i worked as ae state committee woman. I knocked on doors i take my kids knock on doors. I say it is builds character and also a little bit of punishment for them. People are also nicer to you we do take your children. But it is common sense that if you are volunteer knocking doors and staying hey i am rhonda, lindenhe street. I am really concerned about the selection. Can i talk to you about what is happening in our community. In one of the issues that matter to t you can talk to you about the candidates. It is just more impactful and we knock the door multiple timesck before the course of the election yet the ability to have a dialogue and conversation that is more meaningful than actually makes a difference in changing boats. And some building thatt to million person volunteer base, is going to be critical. For your our success in 2020 in terms of voters. We watch radio tv, i dont mean to offend anybody but oneonone conversations make a big difference and voters have better turnouts. That is the function of the rnc. May that a huge fundraising advantage over the dnc this quarter are this year. You also have the Democrat Field aggressively fighting to win the nomination. And taking those resources into their camp pains. Who that is our primary focus 90 percent of my time is fundraising. I was employed the other day every minute i have, im on the phone making calls. Fundraising and then getting out a meeting with our grassroots volunteers. Just to make sure that we can continue be successful going into 2020. Thank you brenda. Thank you so much, i will kick things off with a few questions of my own. And then go to reporters roundtable. What did you take away from a size debate. Many things that concern you at all. In their ability to take on donald trump. I was surprised more of them didnt go after the image. I was surfing in the polls do seem to be very gloves off on him right now. I didnt have a lot of takeaways from the site. I say that in my opinion furniture for the left. Warren is promoting wealth stacked but i say that is something that would be incredibly catastrophic for your a country and how you going to suck people news wealth everyex year create a new organization printed dont say she is really cut that out very well. Nothing i saw last night concerned me. But the ability. Just fight and struggle with some questions. Continually to mumble and i thought some of his answers were troublesome. Troublesome in the delivery of the content. In the delivery. It is interesting to see he really struggles to finish a response. I say that that is something he is going to have to i imagine if he is the nominee and the president will come atom him. And he doesnt seem to be very able to complete his answers. He fumbled through who. Ask you also about the anything. I know you all are doing very well but Democratic Candidates and other groups have pledges hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade the democrats data operations. And flood key scream states with anti trump ads. How is your Party Planning to respond it to the Slightest Movement this digital arms race. Who theres two t things i would see i do say it allows the candidates on the Democrat Field to be very selfrighteous and see we dont want any big corporate her name or dark her name when they know that there are billionaires outside putting hundreds of billions into the states. Hell live warren took her name from lobbyists when she ran for your senate and then transferred 10 million into her president ial campaign. Who i do say there is a lot of hypocrisy from that. Its rnc perspective we obviously cant coordinate with anyy outside pass groups or outside her name but raising the her name that we have raised, and putting that into Voter Registration and putting it into have to vote early we have already registered more than half of the voters that we did in the 2016 cycle and we did that in a threemonth period already. We are well ahead of thel game. We have the ability to have legally coordinate with state parties and candidates gives us a distinct ballot manage. Examiners can do that. Not permitted to do that. Who the is the challenge that they have who much her name planning and and thats why the rnc has to be the best its ever been. Thats why we are raising record her name and working hard. Selena breakfast with emmer in july and at that time, who we asked bump up the deficit or of women in congress. A student he insisted the doing great in recruiting women that as of july at least 40 percent of the total recruits, to run for the houses female. Do you have any for your soul why it is that who hard her republican struggling to get women elected to congress. And what you doing about it. Nancy doesnt recruit candidates. We have to stay neutral. We haveru seen in the folly of putting someone on the scale and the primaries. With the dnc did last cycle with Hillary Clinton and Britney Sanders. However, i would was with Kevin Mccarthy yesterday they have said they have raised and recruited about a 160 women to file for your races across the country. It was something adult with a lot of michigan chair. When is recruiting women and that i did recruit a candidate to run for your state house. I dont like painting women with one wide brush to see this is why the rotor dont. We are half of the electric and we dontor say alike. Some of the obstacles i ran into with women candidates is what i was recording them as a family with balance fundraising and i can see michigan chair fundraising was a challenge for your me. Comes from being a stayathome mom would not be able to be in the community are golf course and suddenly going into boardrooms and asking for your significant amounts of her name. And often times having the door shut and my face. Am he is on the part of that community. I still had the tradition and the ability to do what i need it to do and obviously for the first time in 30 years. But getting that initial investment was incredibly difficult. And i know what my candidates face. Because i had to deal with it. I say wee have to do a better job writing funding for your women candidates. Also people who outback them. There are groups who is doing that and i say shes minute effort to get involved in primary groups like learning for your women. I say that is something that needs to get stronger. Beyond that, we have to get more women in our party. I do say the messenger manders. I sayat want to talk about education, and my kids at school as mother that resonates. When electing Somebody Just because of the gender but i do say having more women in the dialogue especially because we are half of the country is important. Take underperformance in the future. This is been a rock star. I say she its been incredibly distinct in her questioning shes come prepared. She is delved into some important moment moments with these witnesses. Where she is especially vulgar and she asked if there were any quid pro quo she said no. I say shes an excellent on this committee and that went out him. [laughter] luckily we have another here. Will start first with alana. [applause] [background sounds] bangmac obviously when im on the road i am stager donors but from an Online Fundraising perspective within the first i say in the first 24 hours of being the impeachment of being 2 launched are being announced we raised 5 million online. In the first day of the impeachment hearings, we raised 3m online. Who there is an absolute influx of small dollar donations for the present continue to havee the energy as he got elected. Wimberly seen that but the impeachment has actually wrapped that up. And a major donor site, we have continued to see that expand as well. Weve expanded actually are major donors from 32 percent of our overall to 40 percent of her overall race. Im not seen a drop off of that and weve actually see that continue too increase. Who that attributes to the large fundraising numbers that wethin posted. Li and have a 25 milliondollar october, is unheard of at the rnc. Actually Prostate Committee and especially in an off year. Heading into an election. [inaudible conversation] sou heck i do. With the kavanaugh confirmation, not only that i started to see donors that have gone offline on the rnc that havent contributed since 2012 and 2014. And suddenly they call and see im back in. As they have stayed reengaged. As the first time during kavanaugh that actually had people call in and see ill give you her name that went out me having to call them. It was magnificent from a perspective. But we are continuing to see that. Its not to pull anyone away. Obviously we are watching everyone make sure across the whole system of how this is playing are we losing donations. Where the donors on this. In the investment has been a strong as ever which shows that this is partisan. If our donorspa were concerned they would be falling back but they obviously do not agree with what nancy pelosi and the democrats have done and they are doubling down in support of us. You mentioned they are major donor number has increased as a share of the overall fundraising. Is that sort of the rebirth of the unborn program on President Trump and how is the bundler or bundling going. And then i have another question. Is more of a campaign function with scale in the trump campaign. I know theyve launched it, i say is going very well. It launched early earlier this year this critical getting those small dollar checks. Towards the president ial and we are kept outright. But its not spelling over to your print stack efforts 5600 goes to the campaign. This not in our numbers. Our numbers will be anything beyond that but theyve obviously had exceptional fundraising as well. Across the rnc and the trunk and painless quarter we had a hundred and 56 million in cash on hand. As a pretty strong number. I did have another question about impeachment. How are yout tracking the effect of it on your motors and what are you. Who we went into the field on day one just to start getting engaged and getting it week by week. Every week or get numbers. When the battle zone states, were not national who doesnt make sense sense for your us to be in california or new york. We have seen this last week, the presence l numbers are the highest during all of thisov great beast seen a drop off of democrats and significantly impressive is staying they would rather just get the results ofn this. And not have the impeachment. Then and also independence and the metal groceries arend breaking our way as well. I say you have seen other polls now to back this up. The morning concept poll showing thatco independence by templin margins have now swung against impeachment and we have seenng yesterday that the pole come out of wisconsin showing the president for your democrats and then you also have the gallup poll that shows the president s spickup. What we are staying now is backing up what we have been seeing internally. Throughout this process. Tom from washington signs. Student for your soil and check number. As you have a goal of 2 million volunteers. Right now. Question of who exactly where we are right now. I say we are deafly on track to recent number. We just had our get out to vote in our National Week of action. A year before the election. We are actually testing in real time our election operation. We did contacted million voters and we have what we call tbi victory Leadership Initiative where we have actually trained the support volunteers for the go through a six week course. On technology doorknocking, we went into 2016, we had about five thousands of the to be like fellows, where 30000 already. Run track to meet all of our metrics but i dont know if they will behe exact. Impeachment question. How should voters of Republican Voters an independent setting of the election. How about Rudy Giuliani brawl in what we are hearing now. People elect the president he has the administration and his cabinet, running things but he is kind of on his own. Is there enough accountability there. Is on the congressional members get in the conference yesterday. This of the present has the right to enact his foreignpolicy to the channel that he thinks is appropriate. Im not well versed on his staff and exactly what r Rudy Giuliani news brawl was for your this not my brawl as chair. But obviously the state department and the president o has the right to decide and determine what brawl they are going to place individuals in terms of creating forum policy and represented. A foreignpolicy question. Im not sure. Not really in my lane. [laughter]. It came up and animate last night. Who last night Britney Sanders you part of him im sure. He got a lot of applause for your staying design. We are sick and tired noyce said, we must treat Palestinian People with respect and dignity that they deserve. I got a lot of applause from a democratic audience. Does the rncnc have a position on the future of palestine and the palestinian rights. Has something for the president to determine. We dont determine foreignpolicy. It is obvious the president has been a greatt ally to israelwi with, jurupa the height. Partnership and alliance. Archer in michigan, you would have dealt with that in terms of for the things about party chair, we are here to elect republicans, we dont create policy. That is not what i was elected to do. Who obviously, michigan had a very diverse populations we we deal with a lot of people in different constituents. They have a policy maker which would be accurate. I was wondering he would talkom a little bit about the elections particularly pennsylvania always thought really strong results for your democratsni. A we take from that and is the community pause about the president s and chances there. Obviously pennsylvania as a key state. You saw the Southern Suburbs go more democrat. The county, scream county, i say the democrats won by 500 votes. Always the same county and his lady. Theyll maintain that brawl in the western part of pennsylvania. We did one statewide Supreme Court steve. Sims democrat who one and a republican. Who i say what we are seeing in the summit democrat areas are getting more democrat and republican areas are getting more republican. When we are picking up votes in other areas and the background see, and we want to state right seat for your republican, it shows still battleground state. What does that mean in terms of you guys what you are doing. We are already doing a dinner we are going to be in that vaultld program talking to her about his early. Also identifying others. It doesnt make sense in this part of our data program which is who integral to the rnc. The message that we have made, hundreds of millions of dollars in data to create our data in which voters to target. I want to spend dollars for your our time or resources spending similar to knocking the door to somebody who is never going to vote republican. Effective somebody in the democrat to knock on my door, it was a command center harold debbie second i can prevent them from knocking on ten other doors and their data can completely false and right in pennsylvania, we will be identifying the voters where they and how we are going to message to them. And that is where our data is going to be critical. How are you going to message to them. What about the frustration with rhetoric and style. We dont have a democratic candidate right. Who as we going to suburbs and we talk about socialism versus capitalism. Especially the suburban collegeeducated women. That resonates. They dont want to w see government animate present private healthcare plans. Ive been with the same pediatrician with my kids for your ourpe sins have been back to michigan since my daughters been about 12. I dont want the government coming in and staying i cant keep the dr. Im going to lose my private plan and not be able to have the insurance. They abuse and that i like to take care of my family. Who we do talk about those issues in a personal way with those of herb and fort voters some even change the dialogue. That is why that 2 million 2 million volunteer base of actually knocking doors in the neighborhood where you live in, makes a difference. We have seen that those of the conversations can move votes. Votes. I want to jump in and ask you about the republican losses in the governors ring. In kentucky and louisiana. Y there democrat. I when it see that. Donald trump started putting stuff out there on that. Kentucky in particular, does a commuted cause for your concern that democrats are energized. I say everybody is energized. Thenen we saw that from the midterm. Democrats are energized and sore republicans. The difference is we are organized right now going into 2020. And we do02 take one stay at a time we can all be equally organized but when you are taking the whole country its not the same. No kentucky, you did have a governor who has brought as popular. Everybody knows that the numbers are not right heading into reelection. We do look at a different bridge differential between cameron who came in with 200,000 more votes and one by a sick statewide underperforms the other. There is something going on. Who i say the only thing i would extrapolate is the presence going to win kentucky. And louisiana and mississippi in 2020. These candidates want him to come in campaign with them because they know he was of this for them. Whoas he is bringing more voters for them. He gets better because he was there. We are going to be competitive. Hes going to go help everybody in the team to win. He never says back and says okay, you are on your own. He always goes in and we know hes going to take pen accurate. Matter what happens. Louisiana, yet 64 percent popularity hes in h great governor had run off there was an uphill battle from day one. But the president is somebody who says im going to going to try to help everybody when the call on him and says can you come into my state. The calling assay can you go into a state because it was good to help. You talked about everybody was energized for the kentucky race. The democrats won. In a state t that will likely go for the republicans. Who kentucky hillside, what about others read summa candidates do matter. You cant take away we do have five republicans win you cant see it was a sweet i would see yeah good. We lost everything statewide but you cant pull and im like matt and he worked really hard. But you cant pull that out of the equation when he comes in with his height negatives and hes running a is the sheer whose unknown a name. Kentucky historically doesnt have republican governors. Oe Ernie Fletcher and evan, and they were never reelected a republican in history. Who its easy to create a broad narrative and not look atot the specifics of the state in the history. Because people do pick different people to elect based on candidates. I only see this. Candidates matter. It cost me who much her name to try to elect a bad candidate sometimes you cant. You describe your needs partyy is where the road, we are building the best weve ever built. Not all cars are equal and theyre not all mader in detroit. Theyre not all my ford explorer. Some of the scars are harder to get across the finish line even though we built the best infrastructure. It. Is the candidates manner. We have this huge array of democrats who are trying to face donald trump in november. I know you are not going to tell us which to vote for your but in your own i. C. E. Summa ranking in terms of who might be most electable against donald trump. It will kind of qualities you see. Candidates statebystate. Some of them will perform better in different states i believe and i say what we are doing now to preparing in advance and standing plans to be in states that we work in the same loophole in 2016 like a minnesota and new mexico, and expanding the math with the resources we have and actually building goleta read to doing the groundwork that we are running right now is when help us. And thats no matter who comes out. I hope based on the site and what we are seeing is more more people are state taking the lead in these different states we do have the potential of different people wind the first primaries. My dream is that it is a brokers convention. And he goes to a second ballot. Delegates come in. That would be fantastic for your us and then that person has brought able to access the general election dollars until after their convention and we have a huge head start. Weve seen a number of candidates rise to the top and we now save mayor pete leaving iowa. We make of his rise. Is he going to be the guy what you say. Assuming i dont know what to make of it. Ive worked in a lot of president ial campaigns and i dont say anybody here can see definitively what is going to happen. I say it does show the fighting came in a presumptive frontrunner and had very strong numbers and you have started to see them fade. Hell live warren went out. I dont say the democratic establishment wants hell live warren. They really came after her. She started to fade. And iam see pete coming up. He is the progressive liberal. In moderate clothing. He is somebody who raised his hand to healthcare. He is somebody who wants to the Supreme Court 15 judges, this has brought somebody who is moderate. Hes from south bend, indiana it doesnt make him that. Hes trying to position himself that way. As he is it campaigning in iowa. Well see what happens. For your me, every time i see somebody rice, i say thats s great because the means of field has brought one. What would keith and donald trump reelection what would it like like. What a a stark contrast. I say the president winds. [laughter] big. I say he winds big. His have any foreignpolicy experience but he has an executive had the task of sending people to work or conducting himself as the mayor of south bend. Fourth largest city in indiana just dont say hes going to be a stark candidate but we will see. Bridget bowman over here. Give records at the rnc how are you ensuring that the her name goes to candidates. Two republicans struggle with this in 2018. In his heart we are a federal party. We raise federal dollars. I get a lot of requests for your statehouse and from a bucket standpoint, it is really tough to get federal dollars for your a state campaign which weve done. We will definitely be helping on the house and raising in the senate races. And part of that will be hard get out to vote. A state wide in the 17 states with a battleground stateser print if you are building an organization to turn out roads you are actually having the whole ticket. If you turning out for your republicans, that isan going to help and then were working coronation with the nrc to make sure that we are not replicating and being redundant with our resources. Concerns about who is profiting off of it and the cost of the connections. Who when right this the first time we have ever created a platform in the republican ecosystem that is competitive with ackley. Has brought going to be competitive right out of the gate. They been around for your over a decade. But the nrc see the Truck Campaign that they are all on this platform. It gives us an ability too raise small dollars for your candidates. It is who critical. The candidates have that ability to go on tv and get the message. Its very complex and im happy to talk about it but there is nobody profiting from t it. There is no back conversations. We have talked to the house member system verye transparent. And actually some of those house members have the biggest concerns are now using would read like lisa who i had a conversation with this week which is very helpful for your her. And her opponent news fundraising would we need it to build a competitor. In a way to raise the small dollar funds. And it has been fueled a lot by the president. In his capacity to raise small dollars. Who bringing that energy to win red, and the fact that weve beenn expanding our email list as well. Being able to put these emails out to help candidates. They have been hugely impactful. We raise funds for your no her name funds for your future un candidates that will be running against people like alyssa and others. I say thats going to help also recruit candidates and that her name will be there for them when the general. Sooner i wonder how much this amazing fundraising. [inaudible conversation] if he is the main cause of that, what steps are you taking to ensure that fundraising basesna there. For the future. I say one of the factors that first of all present trump being face of the party is the mvp of fundraising. We put into prospecting into expanding our email list in. We started with 11 million emails and were now a number 30 million rated set public. [laughter] we are now we have really expanded our emailn list. And we have small dollar donors that are recurring. And give it right now the average is 40. We do expand the list, and you go from 11 to 30 million, that is huge. And your monthly revenue. That is what Britney Sanders has notedde hell live warren. And this is the president absent at a loophole weve never seen. But thats also going to be part of the party longterm because that is within the rnc. My chairmanship and legacy that we live. The numbers that they have been putting up for your a couple of cycles atle least three to. The candidates pander to. And what we are talking about present trump has been small dollar fundraising juggernaut. It has brought something to our party that has never been seen in that small Dollar Energy but in terms ofma the fundamentals of expanding your email list, i see to our house candidates are using wyn reed, you only have ten emails in your list, not going to risk a lot. You have to have a list of the year expanding and investing in. You are not would have just small dollar donors. You have to invest and expand that list and that investment. Is it too longterm to be able to compete with the democrats. Teresa we are on track to raise 3 billion this year. That is huge. A lot of our candidates in 2018, were outspent by five and 61. Say about what that means. You are going on tv and you are being outspent by 61 candidates. This at 32 percent discount. Thats a differential house candidates in 2018, democrats raise 300 million more. That was huge. And i say this one of the on recorded stories in 2018 with cap inferential in the difference that made in the house races. Thats what we need it to create a wine do it quickly. Who that we dont continue to have that huge gap in spending. Im not going to raise when red reported 30 million in the First Quarter which was a really strong quarter. Were not going to be f flight near one. When we been here for your over a decade. I say also educating the members on how tome do this really technical and conduit page and w ride the wave of the news and had to be really, aware of times where you can strike it raise more her name. Thats an education and i know ive talked to the house members and many of the candidates about this thing is been instrumental in the success of the rnc in the Truck Campaign. [inaudible conversation] condo. [inaudible conversation] who i dont usually speak at the rallies and more because if i fly in with him i dont speak but if i am there on the ground before him and will speak. I love going to the rallies but you know, hacking out. Especially with that energy read with him he reviews his speech and looking at making edits at the last minute. He is adding things constantly who the teleprompter guides have their hands full as those others are being made. He takes itt very seriously and that music he chooses music. He is writing the speech. Seems like there is a lot of financing going on. Is an entertainer. He goes off script everyones well but i say those are the momentst that he is recognizing what the audience is doing. And he ramps them up the never gives he feels very strongly anywhere thirdparty im not seen a thirdparty candidate • •de • • on the hunter biden relationship and having o obviously jurisdiction ever ukraine n to save you will not get that you must remove the prosecutor democrats say this have been investigated i dont think the American People feel like that and how did he get this position but beyond that what was the Vice President s role to help the prosecutor and to help burisma. Impeachment query did not happen and then to follow along the lines of the senate and President Trump will still be president in january or february. Would biden have been better off if democrats decided to walk away quex. I dont know perk i dont thank you have seen the democrats reallyan come at each other except, la at the initial debate one Kamala Harris they said not to attack each other. But as it gets closer to the critical primaries he wouldve been damaged, i dont know but has definitely brought awareness to make jonathan from newsmax. Thank you. The Libertarian Party is pretty established around the country can there be a possible libertarian candidate i was trying not to bring him up. Brother question is that that is the 23rd republican to resign or hold another office. Are you worried about other retirees popping up. So the combined average of the republican favorability of those 23 seats that have retired i think we will retain most of those and 17 others will be battleground we need a smaller number to flip the house 19 thats a smaller threshold than pelosi had in 2018 and we have identified 8 million disengages that did not show up at the 28 team midterms so you look where the president one when he is on the ballot he will help with those candidates also that recruitment arm of the and rcc has done a phenomenal job. Like wesley hunt in the Houston Texas theres a lot of big recruits thats much less than 2018. So that being said we want to win back the house putting the groundwork in place to do that and also california we can win some seats back. I dont know. Looking for signs for organization justin is justin will do whatever he wants to do i dont think anybody can predict what that will be. By all appearances to appeal to china and ukraine to investigate bidens appalling and President Trump said senator romney is a pompous ass. And then to broker a peace. Thanks for that fun question. And these are two grown men who are very capable can work out their differences i have been very clear there was no quid pro quo. The president released the aid without editions. We even saw ambassador sondland yesterday said no person on the planet told me the aid was conditioned upon the meeting or any investigation. With the incredible high approval and they want to see him getim reelected. We had a Campaign Talk about joe biden. And you feel like hes quite worried but do you think that reflects a sense biden is the most formidable opponent . A lot of candidates put out a lot of opposition like elizabeth lauren, when it comes up on the modern campaign trail i dont think so we take we can take them seriously. I hear a lot perk i loved my uncle met. I saw him up fair amount like most love their own goals but at a Senate Policy lunch i talked to him a lot when my dad was sick. But its family stuff. It gets a lot of attention that there are so many disagreement with politics and people can relate to that. So i have never had thanksgiving with my uncle mitch. Not in a negative way i usually have it in michigan. I am one of seven and where it is funny but my moms side my aunt wrote on a piece of paper when trump was a candidate he will win in a landslide and gave it to me. They all love him and they all live in michigan so they are the family im with a lot. I feel sometimes for t3. How the field how Duval Patrick just got into the race and bloomberg is teeing up for the race but in addition with bloomberg he is also launching a 100 milliondollar activity to the president with 15 and 20 million in battleground states hes not someone who can paint is a specialist he was a republican dan independent and of moderate republican n democrat so with these campaigns he is launching a lot of money. Voter registration is very serious there are billionaire democrats who are coming in to fill thebina gap where that has been deficient and that there are concerns are there and. And then not able to coordinate with the candidates directly or with the party or the state party. I like to see democrats weigh in on that. With Elizabeth Moore and im sure will not take outside money but their party is allowing it on outside money to come in and do all these things i would like to see that on the debate stage from what i understand getting iowa and New Hampshire when you plant a flag on the map beyond the momentum of those eyearly states normally that passes you by like giuliani and florida so thats not the best idea but i disagree he is a socialist and he told people what size pop to drink. I like my big gulp. [laughter] if the president ever calls you on air forcehe one how do i deal with your uncle is there any advice about that or do you talk to your uncle about the president quex. I will not share my interactions with the president or what we talk about we talk about a lot of Different Things but i will say the president has said im sorry you have to deal with this and has been very kind and very concerned i know i got a little more out there he called me at 1030 at night and said how are you doing . Then the next day there was a tweet here at the rnc. So to be pulled into the public arena but we grew up in a political family my grandfather obviously had very strong opinions whenever we got together for family gatherings. But do have a disagreement and still be family. The president likes to talk about his crowds and his raleigh zero reflection of his popularity but you notice they are overwhelmingly white. Doesnt concern you africanamericans are not attracted to this president quex. I disagree because we pull data from the new mexico valley was 30 percent hispanic 30 percent are minorities so i sithink the president has a lot and then to talk about the loan forgiveness for hcb use so you justu saw him do black voices matter even in atlanta because theres a storye to follow of how they have improved life across this country especially africanamerican and hispanic communities. So talk about talk about resonating with collegeeducated women so the main republican message of the district that lost in 2018. From the rnc perspective we dont do one broad message we dont customize the message per voter stuff i knock on your door its a different message than your neighbor thats the beauty of thehe data it can target them throughar digital mail through the door knocks and really have a conversation based on what we know that they care about i will not take the same message to every single voter we treatgle each folder as an individual thats tactical part to create that as our compass i will say as michigan chair to be at a level that i didnt know to be so successful we had Macomb County where i saw early on with our doorknocking in real time with the modeling and the analytics we knew something was happening in Macomb County the rest of the country was not seeing and thats important and Hillary Clinton relied on data that she did not calibrate that with the ground game and the volunteers knocking to recognize what was happening on the ground and to adjust your messaging to hit those doors a great example is if you think how elections are won are the late deciders. Who are waiting and in our world we dont think about those people. But the sunday before the primary election in michigan people say who do iphone four on tuesday. I say really . You dont know . Theres a high propensity for voters and they come t to me before church so having that volunteer base to knock doors with that special in 2017 we knew there were those 20000 swing voters not identified you cant put out a meal a male piece or a digital piece that they will click on enough to resonate so knock on their doors twice between friday and tuesday so that is why that army of volunteers is so impactful and important training them in technology , teaching them to knock the neighborhood and build the relationship is a years long processs thats why the ground game we put to gather now is the earliest and the logit one largest we have ever done prior to an elections bb at one. Cbs talked about the nominee with 500,000 so given that experience what is yourur take away on people who donate then get nominated . To make your always allowed to ask them to engage in the political process and those Obama Administration you are allowed to give with the state department i dont know that is up to him we had a fundraiser in san t diego we asked him to get some family members to give you sent an email that said once a confirmed more will come. Thats a red flag. He returned to the money prior to airing the story because you cannot do that you cannot link any type of donation to iofuture action and we know that. Everybody can participate in the process but nothing is promised on the backend that became a bad situation and the appropriate action was taken this is exactly what shoulde happen if it looks like pay for play and we took absolutely the right step. So those problems that ambassador ambassador sondland that he was another donor that was given ambassador ship will that change Going Forward quex. That is historical is interesting that she didnt vote against ambassador sondland but she also didnt go against the obama ambassadorship but that being said the president should be allowed to determine who is best to represent him and be the ambassador once they are elected. So that is something that can be determined by congress in the future but that being said the president should have the right to determine whos best to represent me and my foreignpolicy many are Business People who had interactions with the country i will not highlight ambassadors but many speak the language they have done business there and they are doing a good job. This is the end of our our. Thank you for coming i hope you will come again. Thank you for having me. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] one of the most is inequality with the richest of the country getting richer and cliche but the poor get poorer and to they need to equalize things not to take money away from rich people that to make those with lower economic spectrum have better education or can better themselves so they can get out of poverty and their children can get out of poverty. One question i would have is how do you tackle the Climate Crisis without coming off as partisan the fact that there is a black agenda shows that there is something wrong and not enough being done and in all honesty with reparations because it america things change. What are the candidates doing right now with Global Warming we see drastic changes so what is being done right now to address the issues . The media marketplace shifted dramatically the last dozen years or so and we have rules in place that basically assume the entire media marketplace is three stations at night and a daily newspaper on your front doorstep in the morning it is now a vastly different market. He also talks about his views on President Trump in the effort to impeach him how that differs from the impeachment process of president nixon spirit joining us from manchester New Hampshire democratic candidate t19 let me begin with this question joe why did you decide to enter the 2020 race