Transcripts For CNNW Anderson Cooper 360 20160203 : comparem

Transcripts For CNNW Anderson Cooper 360 20160203

Murray at a late trump rally. Sunlen serfaty. And jeff zeleny following the field which shrunk last night. Last night trump congratulated cruz. Today he bashed cruz over twitter, said cruzs speech last night was his howard dean moment. Whats he saying to the crowd there tonight . Anything about marco rubio . Reporter anderson, thats right, hes continuing his tough talk today after what was a more conciliatory night last night. Hes already gone after ted cruz here at this veevent in New Hampshire saying he was beholden to oil interesting. Earlier he suggested ted cruz is running a dirty campaign because of some of the mailers he sent out in New Hampshire. When it comes to marco rubio, dronald trump seems befuddled today, some reason the story is all about how well marco rubio did. We saw a little bit of a more into spective donald trump in this press Conference Today where he was sort of looking at how he did in iowa and saying, you know, maybe if he knew he had a shot at first place, he would have spent a little more time there, a little more money there, but that he is certainly not humiliated by that secondplace finish. Anderson . Just before the rally, former senator scott brown endorsed trump, right . Reporter sorry, one more time . I couldnt quite hear you on that. Scott brown endorsed trump . Reporter right. Scott brown endorsed donald trump here. I think this is part of what donald trump has been talking about, sort of Establishment Republicans getting on his team, throwing their support behind him. Trump has said hes been seeing this for weeks now. The question, i think, is if you continue to see more endorsements like this, now that we saw marco rubios stronger than expected performance in iowa, that might give more of these Establishment Republicans pause, more of a hope one of their original traditional Establishment Republicans might do better than expected but at least for tonight, trump says hes very happy to have scott brown on the campaign trail with him. Anderson . All right, sara murray, thanks. If donald trump, the press cough f raj coverage in iowa, neither did last nights winner, ted cruz. Take a listen. Two nights ago i was watching tv, stations, every station every pundit said theres no way cruz can win. Cant happen. Its impossible. The race is done. But last night the men and women of iowa sent notice across this country that this election is not going to be decided by the media. [ applause ] actually didnt hear people say that, but ted cruz, this afternoon, thats what he said. Hes already in South Carolina, site of the third contest after campaigning all day in New Hampshire. Sunlen serfaty has the latest on that. She swroin joins us now. After his big night in iowa, hes hoping to keep the momentum going in New Hampshire. What else did he talk about . Reporter its all about momentum in New Hampshire, anderson. The Cruz Campaign is very aware of the tough slog they have here. They are well behind in the latest polls from donald trump here. And in pointblank, this is not an electorate that favors ted cruz. If you look at the voters here, there are less evangelical voters. There are more moderate Republican Voters and more independents. That does not favor ted cruz. His campaign fully understanding that. Saying really that they do not expect to win here in New Hampshire. But saying that their goal is really to exceed expectations. So we saw ted cruz hit the ground here in New Hampshire. He had a big crowd here at a church. I mean, he talked to them in a very specific and tailored way really catering to specific New Hampshire issues trying to really reach out to New Hampshire votesers while also still drawing policy distinctions with donald trump and marco rubio. Anderson . Hes also looking ahead to South Carolina. Hes already campaigning there. Reporter very much so. And this is something that the campaign has been looking ahead to for quite some time. Ted cruz tonight in greenville told the audience pointblank that South Carolina will be pivotal and i think that really speaks volumes to where he sees his campaign going, potentially anticipating not doing well here in New Hampshire, going on to South Carolina. He knows thats a good state for him. Theyve invested a lot in that state. So really wanting to get a win there there South Carolina. And he spoke to reporters aboard his plane en route there and he had some interesting comments when asked by a reporter, do you view this as a twoman race anymore . That was the core argument the Cruz Campaign in the final days leading up to iowa was arguing and he said, you know what, im going to let the votesers decide. I think that is a small shift but a very important shift at the same time because i think it is a realization on cruzs part that this race really has been reshuffled after last night. Anderson . Sunlen sz serfaty, thanks. The republican who came in third last night but treated like the Second Coming by some in the gop, were talking about, of course, senator marco rubio. Chief Political Correspondent dana bash at a rubio rally in extor, New Hampshire, she joins us. Rubios strong third place, cowell it have an effect on the outcome in New Hampshire so far . Reporter were already seeing it, this is an empty room right now because its only because the event ended about an hour ago. This was jam packed, anderson, and we talked to so in voters here who were streaming out the door. They had to close the door because they had a fire marshal problem. And so many people told us that they came here because of his strong showing in iowa. That they were just starting to come around to decide who they were going to vote for in eight days, they were deciding many of them between john kasich and marco rubio, Chris Christie and marco rubio, and the one thing that struck me is the thing that i heard so much is that they said that they wanted a winner, and after they saw rubio finish so well in iowa and surpass expectations, they said, you know, he could be our winner. You cant put a price on that. That is something that is like gold in politics and right now at this moment, thats what marco rubio has. And what are they doing on the ground to try to capitalize on that . Reporter well, a lot. I mean, just the fact that they have big rallies, they sign people up during the rallies. Rubio was joking with the crowd that, you know, youre going to get emails from us, like ten times a day, dont worry its only going to continue for the next eight days. But that is a big part of getting people, but, again, i cant sort of emphasize the idea of momentum. They call it marcomemtum, thats their buzzword inside the rubio campaign. That is something theyre going to try to ride. The other thing we certainly found here is that New Hampshire is much smaller. Its maybe a bigger electorate but smaller geographically obviously than iowa, and they really do take their voting seriously. Their first in the nation primary status seriously. And so theyre going to try to have to get out their voters, but right now, it seems like its very close. Its not that close when it comes to New Hampshire voters. A lot of them are late breaking, and right now its making the sale to people that they should vote for him as opposed to somebody else. Once they make that sale, then its about getting those people out to the polls. All right, dana, thanks very much. No shortage of drama on the democratic side certainly. Party today officially declaring Hillary Clinton the victor in iowa. By the slimmest margin. Effectively it was a tie but a win is a win in politics which means it can be open to interpretation, though, of course. Both sides, more or less anyone else can read into it what they will and they already are. Our panel weighs in shortly. Lets go to cnns jeff zeleny in manchester, New Hampshire. Close numbers in iowa between these two candidates. How is that going to shape the way the people of hn hn vonew h vote, do we know . Reporter . 3 of 1 is separating these two democrats here right now. The people of New Hampshire often had a mind of their own. They often look at what happens in iowa but they dont necessarily embrace what they do. So thats what i found on the ground here today. Talking to voters, they certainly were bayi inpaying at to what was going on but were not going to necessarily embrace it. This is a different contest on the democratic side. Bernie sanders is somewhat of a favorite son. Hes from vvermont, of course. They share media markets. Hes been over here. Bernie sanders has such a strong lead here. The Clinton Campaign is calling themselves the underdog here. When youre Hillary Clinton, its hard to really be the underdog, anderson. So are the campaigns doing anything different based on the results in iowa . Reporter sure. She is stepping up her sharpening her not attacks as much, but just her differences. I noticed today listening to her talk, shes reminding voters that she is the true democrat. She is fighting for the direction of the democratic party. He, of course, is an independent, but i talked to senator sanders last night when he was flying here to New Hampshire, and he had a bounce in his step. He was very excited by the iowa results and he said one thing that he needs to do is show people that he can win. And he will fight all the way until the convention to build a revolution, a movement. So that worries the Clinton Campaign somewhat that he intends to go that far with this here. But he says once he shows people he can win, he thinks he will continue to have a very strong knot of march because so many states out there are voting on super tuesdays in other states. Hell be in this race for the long haul. Anderson . Jeff zeleny, thanks very much. Lets bring in the panel chief National Correspondent john king, host of cnn inside politics. Senior political reporter nia th malika anderson. Conservative writer, rubio supporter, mona join joins, jef lord and bill press. Jeffrey is a trump supporter, former white house political director. Bill press is our news contributor. Author of buyers remorse how obama let progressives down. Need a break . No, im good. Im good. This is snnothing compared to ne hours last night. You see ted cruz exc kcuse donald trump regrouping going after ted cruz in New Hampshire. Should trump be more worried about cruz or marco rubio . Thump should be worried about himself. Hes never won a race and lost. Hes never been in the room the morning after, what went wrong,. Hell say, look, i came in second, people underestimated lets give voters of iowa their due. They turn eed out 53,000 votes, shattered the number in the Iowa Caucuses. For the Iowa Caucuses on the republican side, they shattered the records. They squeezed every last republican vote. You go to places where you could not expect the conservative evangelical Tea Party Guy to campaign and found their votesers even there, places where rubio was running big and trump was running second. The cruz people smartly found a couple hundred more voters here and turned them out. Trump underperformed his poll numbers. As an organization youre then asked, did we do something wrong, did we not have a good ground game . He has to be asking himself that question when he goes into New Hampshire now where he has a bigger lead but private Campaign Polling shows him a little lower than the public polling. New hampshire always takes a break and thinks again after iowa. Trump needs to worry about himself, decide how is he going to campaign . Yes, i was joking with amanda about this in the greenroom, how long will it be before he says ted cruz should win here because hes from neighboring canada . He needs to worry about himself and needs to decide how is he running . In the state of New Hampshire, running as the disrupter, running as the independent voice, running as the new fresh voice. You can get a lot of traction an that in New Hampshire. If he worries about everything else, i think that will be his downfall. Interesting today he was griping about rubio getting so much attention for coming in third but he didnt really go after rubio. No, in his press conference, he was chasent. I think he learned politics is not like ratings in television, you cant just flip the channel, it involves a lot more ground game and a lot more work. I think he didnt go after rubio because the enemy of my enemy may be my friend. So let cruz go after rubio, at least right now. And. Christie. And let christie who called rubio the bubble boy or the the boy in the bubble. So let all those guys do it. Nia, is it going to be harder for rubio he was able to close the gap with trump in iowa. Is it going to be harder for him to do it in New Hampshire given you have kasich, christie, bush, competing for the same its an establishment cage match in New Hampshire. All of those folks you just mentioned have been on the ground and on the air going against marco rubio with bush with the right to rise superpac questioning his judgmenjudgment questioning his commitment to the senate. I think it is going to be much tougher. Goes in with a head of steam out of iowa. Picked up the tim scott endorsement from South Carolina. Something interesting happened today, Rush Limbaugh on his Radio Station sort of rejected this idea that marco rubio is the face of the establishment. He called him a fullthroated conservative. Gave him a pretty good defense there. So that really underscores marco rubios primary argument which is that hes the one that can build the coalition between all the amanda, should we read much into the fact cruz is already in South Carolina, he did stop in New Hampshire but hes in South Carolina right now . He can certainly be competitive in New Hampshire but New Hampshire is going to be the proving god for the establishment lane. I have a nintendo theory for whats going on on the republican side. When you played the Old School Nintendo games you had to fight through the big bosses to get to the next level. Ted cruz fought through donald trump. Marco rubio has to fight through those people nipping at his heels in order for cruz and rubio to face off in the final match, which i think is where a lot of people hope it goes. A lot of people have to be cleared out before we can get there in South Carolina and on to super tuesday. Mona, how tough is it going to be for marco rubio . Marco rubio has overcome a tremendous amount. Theres been incoming at him from right to rise which spent 22 million they spent on negative advertising was spent on rubio. Theres a psychological drama there between bush, views rubio as the protege who was out of order running at the same time. Its an interesting psych draod. He was able to overcome the tremendous negative advertising and still perform extremely well in iowa, so now hes using that bump and if the state is a better fit for him, but heres the funny thing. And Rush Limbaughs endorsement today, not endorsement, but his recognition of this term, establishment, is late coming but welcome because the notion that marco rubio, the Tea Party Candidate who beat Charlie Crist, Charlie Crist was endorsed. Rubio was the insurgent. The notion that he represents the establishment, its become a meaningless term. Its become an epithet. I dont think thats what marco rubio wants to bear. Hes not trying to pick the fights back with jeb bush. Hes been laser focused on taking down ted cruz. Jeffrey, does it surprise you to hear your candidate, donald trump, say tonight and he tweeted about it, he doesnt think voters have enough appreciation for the fact that hes selffunding his campaign. I think he i dont think he meant it in any insulting fashion, just perhaps theyre not paying as much attention to the fact that he is selffunding and he thinks its important. I dont think there was anything insulting intended on that. As a matter of fact, speaking of Rush Limbaugh, rush talked about that today and essentially agreed with that, that this was not about insulting any set of voters, it was just about explaining his views on it. Paul, how much time on the democratic side do you think Hillary Clinton, who you have a proclinton superpac, should spend in New Hampshir

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