With randi kaye. reporter: this is the war room at alan grayson s headquarters, grayson is a democrat, brash and combative former lawyer for whistle blowers and now a congressman running for his second term in orlando, florida. his staff just got word a new attack ad against him was coming. cut $500 billion from medicare. they re spewing false claims about cutting medicare. reporter: his campaign manager quickly shifts into damage control. what are you hearing about this particular ad that could be coming? this particular ad is trying to distort the congressman s record on senior issues when, in fact, he has been one of the biggest proponents and biggest deliverers for seniors in the district. reporter: the group behind the attack describes itself as the conservative alternative to the aarp. nasty name calling. a lot of retirees live in orlando and they tend to vote. but grayson tells me they won t be fooled by, quote, special interest groups trying to buy an election f
reporter: his campaign manager quickly shifts into damage control. what are you hearing about this particular ad that could be coming? this particular ad is trying to distort the congressman s record on senior issues when, in fact, he has been one of the biggest proponents and biggest deliverers for seniors in the district. reporter: the group behind the attack describes itself as the conservative alternative to the aarp. nasty name calling sfwlr a lot of retirees live in orlando and they tend to vote. but grayson tells me they won t be fooled by, quote, special interest groups trying to buy an election for his republican opponent. how do you tackle that? 400 knocks on the door, 600,000 live phone calls and we ve seen over and over again that that matters a lot more than whatever people are seeing on tv because frankly they re on to it. maybe. if the campaign is massing to defeat grayson and for dan
Running for his second term in orlando, florida. his staff just got word a new attack ad against him was coming. cut $500 billion from medicare. they re spewing false claims about cutting medicare. reporter: his campaign manager quickly shifts into damage control. what are you hearing about this particular ad that could be coming? this particular ad is trying to distort the congressman s record on senior issues when, in fact, he has been one of the biggest proponents and biggest deliverers for seniors in the district. reporter: the group behind the attack describes itself as the conservative alternative to the aarp. nasty name calling. a lot of retirees live in orlando and they tend to vote. water going on to that house, it doesn t seem to be working. can you see the flames continue to rise. as the camera zooms in, you see the firefighters on the bottom, and then you can t see the sky, because it s a complete fireball