the national federation of state high school associations released its annual report in august. and found participation in 11-player football dropped to the lowest point in almost 20 years. but, sports illustrated noted that football participation is up significantly in four states alabama, 45%. louisiana, 56%, oklahoma, 15. utah, 9. those states all supported donald trump by at least 18-point margins over hillary clinton in 2016. of the places that went to clinton, only nevada and washington, d.c. have seen football participation rates rise since 2008-09. in fact participation is down only 6.1% in states that were red in 2016. it s down 15.7% in blue states. with me now is former harvard football player, former professional wrestler dr. chris
o rourke supporters scattering to perhaps biden, warren or sanders but it is going to be along the margins and talking probably just shades of a percentage point for any candidate benefitting from him getting out of the race. jon: another candidate whose campaign seems to be in a bit of trouble might be kamala harris. she says that she s going to close her new hampshire office and she s all in on iowa. listen i m committed to new hampshire, but we had to make difficult decisions, and so yes, i m all in in iowa because iowa s the first state. jon: all right, but the you take a look at if you take a look at the polling in iowa right now, she s not even in the top five. you have warren at 22.3%. this is the real clear politics average. pete buttigieg at 17. joe biden at 15.7. then sanders and klobuchar rounding out the top five. kamala harris is obviously
buttigieg, biden at 15.7. but as we ve talked about, he has a really high burn rate as they say. and we now know he s been spending a lot on private jets. why? i ve seen this movie before. i ve seen it starring jeb bush and john mccain. i think there was an assumption of building a general campaign in the primary. he s got a very big structure he keeps feeding. also raising money the way he s raising it. that old school way takes a lot of money. and it takes a lot of traveling around some of the major cities. you have to go from miami to l.a. to san francisco and then somewhere in the middle, you ve got to campaign in iowa and new hampshire. remember when john mccain hit rock bottom because he ran out of money? he had been spending money like a drunken sailor and it was actually the best time of his campaign. when he went lean and mean and
he made beto o rourke look foolish because he couldn t explain his own policy but because mayor pete used it as a way to make an indictment on washington, d.c. the politicians in d.c. who talk and talk and don t do anything. it was a scene that mayor pete hit throughout the debate. it s a good differentiating point from him. he comes from a place, not washington. he represent a place in the middle of the country and that separates him. dana: let me ask, one of the things that you need is a candidate is money. several candidates have more money in the bank than biden did. he spent more than $17.6 million. he has raised 15.7. he said maybe it s because he got in so late. do they have a financial problem on the biden campaign? 120 days to go until the iowa caucuses and if you didn t have universal name i.d. like joe biden, a burn rate that high would be concerning but your four months out. it s enough money on hand. he s late to the game and hiring
meanwhile, let s talk to your fund-raising numbers. you are killing it. let s bring up to how you re situated. so here are your latest numbers. you have 15.9 million you have fundraised in april alone. in march, it was 15.5. in february, 14.6. in january, 15.7. and that s, you know, doubling, basically, what the dnc is. what is driving your success with this. well, the support for the president continues to be strong among small dollar donors and major donors. they recognize, we re going to be up against a well-funded democrat field. and it gives me an advantage of party chair to start getting into these battleground states early. and i will tell you, i work at this too as party chair. this is most of what i do, is raising money to prepare for the election. we re very pleased with our team and our success so far. it s a testament to whatever your secret sauce is for raising all of this money. are there particular issues that are driving the fund-raising? it s across the board wit