misuse it in that way. correct. but of those people there is a core band, and we don t know who they are, who behave this way. they engage in anti-semitism, in racism, in base personal attacks. the only thing that i think elected officials can do is denounce it. they have to be better than this. otherwise they re just enabling it, they re just part of the mob. maybe that s what they are at this point. waiting to see what johnny isaacson has to say on the floor today. jennifer rubin, charlie sykes, thanks very much to both of you. after what a lot of democrats say has been a completely exhausting two years of president trump, will they give up or fire up? we ve got a couple of big early indicators of which way that s going, money and volunteers. so we ll talk to a guy who s stunningly successful grassroots effort helped swing the house in 2018. we ll talk about what s already happening for 2020. ha ppening fo20r 20
lot. other democrats are looking to borrow from bernie including beto o rourke. those who work on this campaign and comprise what i hope will be the largest grassroots effort we ve ever seen, want to unionize i support that. and julio hooley and castro. the democratic socialist is beefing up his senior staff too. and david sirota an investigative journalist who has been quietly advising sanders to write speeches. from the top down their strategies to cast president trump as the second candidate in 2016 to run on a platform of totally transforming d.c. from my perspective we are going to end fake bernie sanders
for something, not against something. you talk to a lot of democrats out there right now and they ll tell you that they are running against something. what s important to them is to get president trump out of the white house. so i asked him, can he take the same approach that he did in the midterm elections against senator ted cruz where he sort of became this rising star in the democratic party and apply that on a national level do that, to get the democratic nomination and beat president trump? he seems to think that he can. he is saying that is his goal and that he will take that approach where he didn t use pac money, where he didn t have polsters, it was a grassroots effort in the texas. will that work? we ll have to wait and see. when it comes to the issues in the week leading up to this he was e-mailing his supporters talking about immigration, the prohibition of marijuana, as well as the criminal justice system. last night when i talked to him he was focuseseded d on climatee
people spontaneously showed up at airports. reporter: so fred, that s what she s talking about here. a grassroots campaign, a grassroots effort. so far she s already said that the campaign is raising more than a million dollars in the first 48 hours after her announcement. 95% of that, $100 or less. she s desperately trying to do what many of the others are doing, and that s get on the democratic stage for the first two debates, the dnc outlining she s got to get 65,000 people from at least some 20 different states to contribute to her campaign, to get on that stage, as well as some polling numbers that she s got to hit. so this is really an opportunity for many people across the country, but specifically the midwest, where she s very strong and enjoys a lot of support to make her case about who she is and how she can get there. all right. suzanne malveaux in manchester, new hampshire. thanks so much. a major topic of discussion
back her, but then they say they back nancy pelosi. that s all well and good. they re probably banking on the fact that marcia fudge will do this. i thought it was interesting her name was not on the list with the democrats who signed it. there were only two women on the list, 14 men. seth moulton is the one matching this campaign most vocally. in response to that, he is a four-time veteran in iraq. we think him for his service. but there is a letter from every side with nine democrat veterans signing it saying we back nancy pelosi, she has been there for us for years. harris: i m fascinated that there is a swing phot among democrats. 10% as large number of people who don t know they want to vote for between nancy pelosi and whoever else might run. that s a swing vote among democrats? how is that even possible? katie: what i find interesting about those numbers, melissa, because they are so split amongst democratic voters it isn t just happening among politicians in washington. t