others who want a stand alone funding bill. peter doocy has been watching this bouncing ball and has the details from washington. hi. reporter: hi. the one week extension means that nobody working under the dhs umbrella is going to get furloughed or go without a paycheck for at least another six days and means the republicans are going to get another crack at cutting out money used to fund president obama s executive actions on immigration. all overt country republicans, senate and house candidates told the people, if you give us a republican majority, we will stop president obama s illegal and unconstitutional amnesty. i think we need to follow through on that commitment. reporter: senator john mccain is looking into the future at fights over the budget, money for fighting isis, and highway funding, just to name a few. he wants to focus there, telling the hill newspaper quote, i just think we ought to move on to other things. i m not sure how it helps for
people fairly on unfairly tends to be both sides are doing it somehow the same way, playing the same game with the same money trap. if anybody should be mad it should be those of us who don t get invited to these parties. but i don t think they re going to turn that into a voting issue. it s never been one in the past. you said that you ve handled these before. you ve run these type of straw polls before. what s the secret? first question before that, rand paul won for the third time, but the headline could really be scott walker. do you think walker could potentially really prove to be a meaningful opponent to the democrats, cause now he won the iowa caucus, now he came in number two here. he s been punching through it seems. they were all punching through a little. the way i watched it, and i talked to a few republicans afterwards, what it seemed to convince most people was that the republicans have one candidate right now and that s jeb bush. and these little victories with
but straw polls don t decide elections. and if there is one woman in america who has been criticized from every angle possible and it s still standing quite tall, it s hillary clinton. so i think the republicans had some fun today. i think there is some fun speeches, but i don t think much happened that will matter in the long run. they say one of the things that could grab out of people, the foreign fundraising like algeria, giving many bucks to the clintons. in the long run, do you think that will matter? no. you know i taught election law on campaign finance reform for 20 years and i tried and tried and tried year after year after year to make campaign finance reform, money in politics and ethics a voting issue, an issue people were willing to vote about. and i ll be very honest, we consistently failed. it turns into a one-day story. the assumption of the american
party to independent. sometimes the analysts don t get this that the base in my party wants people to tell it like it is and go out and do it. they don t need to have a litmus test that you check off every single issue on. what they want more than anything, because they ve been burned so many times before is they want candidates who will lay out what they re going to do and do it. reporter: senator ted cruz of texas, number three in the cpac straw poll is emerging as the populist candidate for the work class, telling me that the slings and arrows that he s taking from his colleagues on capitol hill are helping his potential run. the attacks from washington from democrats and republicans that have been lodged my way i think somehow that s cut through the noise and the people who are getting hammered the working men and women who are seeing their wages stagnate who are seeing their future harder and harder to achieve i think their attitude is you know what?
walker did not really bus people in. so for him to get so close in that line-up, i think is very impressive. it really04áñ comes down to, and rand paul also goes after othercñjñz republicans andw walker rarely has done that or he, like fiorina, go after obama and hillary. i think that republicans seem to be wanting more of that these days. chuck we re winding down here. tell me$ f÷ your thoughts. these guys are fishing out there to see who is going to take their bait, like behind me they re out there seeing will this work? will that work? how do i get the feedback? i think there was a lot of questions answered, especially with scott8,2fñ walker. it s a litj test indeed. so we will watch this as we.pck move on with senator rand paul beingq .x the 2015 cpac straw pollcnçruju and i thank youmm÷ both, tammy bruce, and chuck. and tammy, thanks for letting me wear your earrings. they look great on you. i will run them.