with a.j. spiker015, 2016 for candidates to come into the state to see that bran stad's running the state, it's competent, they're looking at the senator race that's open with tom har kin retiring. they're be able to focus on the tickets that bran stad is clearly going to win the primary. >> and this is something that's always struck me when i look at new hampshire and iowa. they both have that status, the first in the nation status, the primary in new hampshire, the caucasus in iowa. new hampshire is purr perpetually under threat. whoever is the governor of the state, it sort of falls on that person to really protect the primary, protect the caucus. it matters so much to the political class that they get this kind of attention every four years, the access that comes with that it. sounds like terry bran stad took it on ims saying i want to make sure that iowa continues to have this primary role. >> i asked a supporter of striker about that and they seem to have the support. that in the rules iowa is n