the obama case it was mostly television advertising. and still remember your may article in new york magazine where you said that they were disqualifying mitt romney in may as an unfeeling and earlier. unkind corporatist. part of what the trump people have learned is that lesson and they re doing it digitally rather than on the air. but they re spending so much month on facebook, they re very so he mi sophisticated. and smart democrats are worrying about that. and they look at the democratic field and they think it s a weak field. they don t see anyone who they think on a candidate basis is better than their guy. that s their view. what i think they re overlooking, and when they pay attention to it they don t overlook it, is just that unlike in 2016, they have a candidate who was they don t have a candidate anymore who is kind of an unknown quantity who just
republican candidates. they are going after president trump pretty aggressively but that s only part of the equation for them. we saw that with conor lam in a special election upset earlier this year and we are seeing it in a lot of these races across the country. that s where i expect most of the candidates in these real swing districts like the one we are seeing in pennsylvania will land. martha: republicans are raising a lot of money. that clf, $71 million versus $2 million in the same cycle last time around. the american action fund has similar growth. cannot money put them over the top and some of these races? it s good to have national money. national money is great, but it comes with national direction. but the democrats have comparably this year is they have on the race by race level, democrats have turned out to be better at raising money on the candidate by candidate basis. you saw with connor lam versus rick, a good example where you had all this national, corporate
are you trying to harness something more in this movement and have politicians reach out to you? yes. some have. what i plan on doing during this gap year, which i still may not be taking, i haven t made a final decision on, is i m going to be working on a candidate basis, because there are republicans who are supported by the nra and not supported by the nra. there s democrats that are supported by the nra and democrats not supported by the nra. i ll be working on a candidate basis to make sure that candidates who are serving their constituents interests get into office. which candidates reach out to you? there is one that s going against steve king in iowa that s reached out to me. a few have reached out to me. i think at the end of the day what s important is we all come together and work on this not as democrats and republicans but as americans and realize that our strength is in our diversity of people and our diversity of ideas. this is not an issue that has
don t want you? you have taken the country by storm. how do you explain this? did they reject you before the parkland massacre? how do you explain this? they rejected me about let me think, about two weeks ago, most of them. ucla and usd. we have a highly impacted university system in america. and i think there is a lot of really good candidates that don t get into college. it goes to show regardless of whether you get into college, you can still change the world. the hardest part is believing you can. you eventually will. david, i know you haven t been spending much time back at parkland high school. you ve obviously been this has become your mission. we have seen you on the media a lot. are you going to college in september? that s a good question. i m thinking about it. but i may be taking a gap at this point to work the campaign trail as a candidate basis, not just working for democrats or
that people get out there. people are working during mid terms. and don t get this wrong here. this is not a republican or democrat thing. there are democrats that do take money from the nra as well as multiple other terrifying interest groups on wall street and various other places like that. what the nra does is they heavily lobby the gop mostly. that s what we re trying to get after here. we re going by candidate basis, not by party. we re making sure that whatever individual that we re helping out with to explain they re not here to murder your children. they re here to support them and grow as american citizens. how much interest do you have going forward? it seems it s been more productive to talk to regular people than politicians. how much of your strategy involves talking to politicians? a ton of t none of them have been listening. one republican was talking to us in tallahassee and we had multiple meetings and they