well. trump ground game is interesting. he s been pulling in political newcomers who have never caucused before, much less done the nitty-gritty campaigning work before and he s trying to pull those people in. i m not sure whether that will work. will it bring a whole new crowd of people to the caucuses? or will they be inexperienced and cause some sorts of collapse on caucus night? otherwise you ve got other candidates who have strong ground games. ben carson has a very strong ground game. he has 130,000 iowa names in his daytona beach. he had 30,000 hard i.d.s, people who say they re very hard committed to caucusing for ben carson. we ll see if that stands, as for the mainstream candidates, i d have to say jeff bush and chris christie have the strongest ground games, rubio playing catch-up. let s talk about new hampshire with james, the real clear politics average james has trump in a big lead right now in new hampshire. over rubio, christie and cruz
important dynamics we ll see play out tuesday night. we ll all be watching for trump but if you look at at who are the front runners for the republican nomination, marco rubio is right up there. he and ted cruz have totally different versions on how to deal with the mideast. they don t get along. they re colleagues in the senate. sure, the fighting with trump but see if there s disagreement between rubio and cruz. there was a real rubio moment after the last debate. has it faded just a little since then? it s interesting, talking to his campaign, just months ago, they said, you know, we re going to play the slow game on this one. we don t need to get involved with donald trump. they neve did until recently. we re just going to sit back, raise money, try to build ground games in the states then catapult up. if you watch what happened, that seemed to have worked. of course there is the trump phenomenon and the ted cruz element going on in iowa. chris christie a little bit of a bump i
tell me about iowa first. it s been 1 and 1a for a while with truck and carson. truck has been leading or close to the lead in iowa since the close of the summer. the big question is what is the ground game look like. what are these teams doing to turn in supporters saying they support the candidate to make them actual caucus-goers? it s a big lift in iowa. trump and carson have good ground games at this stage. reporter: let s go back to the debate stage now. bring back the picture. this is what viewers will see in a prime time debate. right there in the middle you have got donald trump. been carson and marco rubio. trump has been making a big
anna, hang in there, girl. it s a long haul, baby. we have a few debates to go. i m outcampaigning everybody. i m working hard, we re raising the resources. we have the best ground games in these early states and president cain, president clinton, when she got beaten by barack obama, giuliani and a whole list of people who were leading in october a year before the primaries. and we ve i m confident to in where we are. now, the other issue with jeb bush, john, has been all along that he certainly has a record to talk about. what he says is a conservative record in florida that despite his name he is an outsider. he s never worked in washington. but the problem has been that even his supporters say this, that his inability to really communicate that on a national level via television, which is kind of how you have to do it when you re running for the presidency. and his answer was, i m not
for the campaign part of it. anna, hang in there, girl. it s a long haul, baby. we have a few debates to go. i m outcampaigning everybody. i m working hard, we re raising the resources. we have the best ground games in these early states and president cain, president clinton, when she got beaten by barack obama, giuliani and a whole list of people who were leading in october a year before the primaries. and we ve i m confident to in where we are. now, the other issue with jeb bush, john, has been all along that he certainly has a record to talk about. what he says is a conservative record in florida that despite his name he is an outsider. he s never worked in washington. but the problem has been that even his supporters say this, that his inability to really communicate that on a national level via television, which is kind of how you have to do it when you re running for the presidency. and his answer was, i m not