presidential campaign right there, and terry mccall the democratic candidate for governor in virginia is making clear to potential donors, supporters, staffers that a way to get in on the ground floor of hillary 2016 is to help his campaign. those four people, i just mentioned helped him raise $2 million for his campaign in march. an adviser to bill clinton, thatted a fundraiser in his home. but there s one problem with this. he s not running in d.c. hep wants to be known as a virginia businessman, not a d.c. money man as he was when he was head of the democratic national committee. not only is this a test of the hillary clinton organization, how it s playing now, but this is not just any state. virginia, which is now up with ohio as the swing state. are you saying, is he telling people explicitly now, if you get in we now, you ll be in with
nationally, willie, republicans have 60% of the governors, they control i say this all the time. but if you want to talk about the strength of the republican party, look to washington, it s weak, look nationally, it s really strong. it s not like republican ideas are not winning ideas. you have, you know, republicans dominating the governorships in key swing states. they just have to figure out how to make their washington party more flexible and more successful. and i think part of the challenge is to do that sincerely and genuinely and not make it look like it s a cynical move to chase demographics when they talk about gay marriage, when they talk about things like immigration when marco rubio gets out there. i think people in the middle want to see they really are interested in making policies to help people not just to chase them because they feel like
lord, this is devouring our budget. oh, it s a ticking time bomb for every state, every state, every state in the union. all right. we ll talk about this more. but coming up on morning joe, arianna huffington will be joining us. also david axelrod, valerie jarrett and reverend al sharpton. but first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? it was a tease yesterday, april fool s day. the warm air arrived in the northeast for one day, that s it. the cold air is back, but not for long, good things coming your way next week. let s show you what s happening out there this morning, though. a cold morning, windchills in the teens and 20s and we ve got some snow out there. coming off of lake erie and lake ontario. especially from syracuse through upstate new york right around albany. could even be a little bit of accumulating snows. now, as far as the other areas of concern out there, not so much airports, we should be okay today, yesterday it was near 60 in new york city, to