of video of the contenders as well as thousands of pages of public record requests, but it s really an unprecedented task. they have never had to deal with so many democratic candidates in one field let alone on stage together, ten each night. take a look to what one rnc official had to say about how they have to factor that into their strategy and i appropriate. certainly the challenge is that some you know better than others, some have been around longer than others so you naturally have more information. so that s why they ve been going through two organize it to figure out, again, what is the theme. what we ve seen i think joe biden said it himself, bernie sanders socialist platform works for all of them. we do have those natural themes that are emerging and want to make sure people see that. our biggest challenge is making sure people are getting the information and that s why they ve been working, yes, over a year plus, but also in the last several weeks to figure out the best
challenged swing districts and sitting members of congress. so modseration seemed to be winning the day and especially if you re looking for those suburban voters. why is it money we re seeing in terms of excitement for this particular democrat falling on to dnc fund-raising here? as we you know, you re the guy to talk to about this. that s fine. it s double to one rnc to the dnc in the latest numbers that we have from open secrets. 15.5 to 8.1 million dollars. what are we seeing? probably a lot of people spleding out money over 23 different candidates. there s a lot of that in here. up by two from last week as we met? look, as we get closer and closer to the culmination of this cycle particularly with iowa and some candidates fall off, then i think you ll start to see a lot more money go to the dnc, the dccc as i think folks focus more on a unified message. could be tricky. if it isn t an established candidate like establishment candidate like joe biden, i
yesterday. you saw the meeting. there was 160 rnc members. also, here were the political arms of the gop. the senate territorial committee. all are tasked with helping the members looking toward 2018 and the midterm race. usually it s the reception period when you win the house, senate, and white house. as you were mentioning there, when you have the aftermath of the james comey firing, the russia investigations continuing. the tone was different around here. that s why when donald trump recorded a video yesterday that played to these rnc members, there was one particular line that was interesting. we ll play that byte. i ll be going around to different states. i ll be working hard for the people running for congress and for the people running for the senate. we can pick up a lot of seats. especially if it keeps going like it s going now. reporter: even before this week, thomas, the republican party had issues. it passed in the house that
they have better health care than they do. they have universal health care. now the latest from the republican party. the rnc spring meeting coming to an end in san diego yesterday. here is a look at what it was like when they were gavelled out. this is all happening under the week that was. the chaos unfolding in washington over the firing of the fbi director. that was largely ignored. nbc is in coronado, california with more. the hard duty of being in san diego. i m jealous and coronado, which is gorgeous. let s talk about the meeting and the hopes of what they were trying to forecast for 2018. reporter: yeah, thomas. this was actually the rnc s first meeting since inauguration day. new rnc chair kicked it off
health care bill, which had 21% approval rating across the country. what the issue is for the republican party now is messaging. they don t have a tax reform bill. they haven t passed health care legislation they promised to do early on in the trump administration. and so really what these individuals here all these different political apparatus arms is having to figure out what extend they stand with donald trump and stand with their members. there s been no advertising on tv from any of these groups or any outside political entities defending any of these members house votes for that health care bill or actually promoting the legislation. so really over the next 18 months, what is going to have to be determined by the groups is the extent to which they go out and have their members seen with donald trump. i was talking with one rnc member, thomas. he reminded me this is donald trump s party now. he said it comes from the white house. exactly where the messaging is going. if donald tr