o it grab the spotlight. but this campaign video from democratic south dakota congressional candidate jeff barth did the trick with me. he makes his pitch to voters while laying out his life story. a thousand miles through great britain with my church youth group. i was afraid of nuclear war the whole time. i have ridden an ostrich. i went to four colleges. my wife and i raised our two daughters who both have straight teeth, college degrees, husbands, and grandchildren. i worked for 31 years in tell mun indications climbing polls and dig holes. for six years i served in the u.s. military with one of these. but congress is broken. who is going to fix it? the tea party? d.c. insiders? they have their horses in the
race, but they are heading north and all we see is their south end. those horses asses aren t even going to try to fix it. joining me on the phone, candidate jeff barth p.m. you really don t get the full appreciation of your youtube video there unless you see the whole five minutes. we showed a clip. it s gotten 166,000 views on youtube. considering there s only 60,000 maximum democrats that may show up to the primary, how many people in south dakota do you feel have seen this video? well, quite a few. although i really don t know because i can tell you this. when i go to mcdonald s people call me by name. restaurants across the state, my waiter knows who i am. it s kind of fun. well, you weren t the chief recruited candidate. ver lich has the endorsement of
pitch. all right. jeff barth, i m going to leave it there. thanks for agreeing to interview by phone. have a great day. stay safe on the campaign trail. up next, we have the latest on the whole veep stakes. plus should president obama have gone to wisconsin? our panel will be here to kick off the week. first, look the the soup of the day. tom yum goong. i have had this soup before. not at the white house, but it s a thai shrimp soup. don t forget, you can follow the show on facebook. you re watching the daily rundown, only on msnbc. we ll be right back.
california to new jersey. how does a poorly-funded congressional candidate break out? one of the more memorable videos. all the way to congress. good morning from washington. it s monday, june 4th. i m chuck todd. this is the the daily rundown. wisconsin voters decide whether to remove governor scott walker from office and replace him with tom barrett. the recall capped a bitter fight that waged for over a year and the stakes could not be higher for organized labor. for scott walker s political future and for fellow republican governors made in his image and for each campaign s chance of putting the badger state in their column in november. more than $63 million have poured into wisconsin and political leaders have put the state in the spotlight issuing wisconsin s own congressman paul ryan and former president bill clinton. this is an election that will send shock waves throughout america. what state assembly person, what governor will ever take on these kinds of reforms
more than $63 million have poured into wisconsin and political leaders have put the state in the spotlight issuing wisconsin s own congressman paul ryan and former president bill clinton. this is an election that will send shock waves throughout america. what state assembly person, what governor will ever take on these kinds of reforms if this is what happens to you? the whole country is watching. all those people that poured all this money into wisconsin, if you don t show up and vote will say, see, we got them now. we re finally going to break every government in america. we re going to stop worrying about the middle class. we don t give a rip whether poor people work their way into it. we got it all. at a dairy breakfast yesterday, both candidates served eggs and made their closing arguments. walker argues it s a choice, not a referendum and is trying to remind voters why they rejected barrett the first time in 2010. that s really what s at stake. whether or not we