. >> joining us now by known is trump campaign manager, corey lewandowski. corey, thanks for joining us. your candidate on twitter said the loss last night wasn't all that bad and experts said all along he couldn't do well there and ended up in second place. i think yes you said, quote, i'd love to say second place is great, but it's not. you also said, quote, the mindset of this campaign is to go out and work as hard as humanly possible to finish first. on the ground now in new hampshire, are you going to shift your strategy, are you going to work on your ground game? >> well, hey, anderson. thanks for having me on. the short answer is we have a candidate, have the privilege of working for, has never been -- we came in second place last night. we beat incumbent senators, incumbent governors, people who are career politicians, individuals whose brother and father were the president of the united states. trump beat them all. i think it's pretty amazing. what we wanted to do from day one is make sure more people were involved in the political process. i think t

corey lewandowski. you know, we learned a lot about ground games in one week. i have to tell you that. and the entire staff. this is hope. this is hope. this is hope. nobody takes more phone calls than hope. thank you hope and corey, and the entire group, the entire staff. incredible job. get over here. [applause] [crowd chanting] mr. trump: so, again, we have to thank the candidates because they really ran -- we have some very talented people, and to be victorious against some of these people even if it is for one week, but believe me, it is going to be for many weeks, ok? but they really are terrific. a number of them called. i wanted to congratulate the other candidates, ok? now that i've got that over with , it's always tough and then tomorrow, boom, boom, but that's the way it is. we have some real talent in the republican party. we want to thank everybody. thank you very much. we -- yeah, right. i tell you what. i tell you what. what do we really want to thank? we want to thank the people of new hampshire, right? mr. trump: i said, i think i'm going to do

trump campaign manager corey lewandowski told me that they see a big difference between iowa and new hampshire. they believe iowa was more about explaining this confusing caucus process to iowans. the trump family was speaking a few moments ago. this approach, anderson, admittedly did not work in iowa but inside the trump campaign they are looking at the polls and feeling much better about thir. they think the approach will work here. >> what is his overall message or tone before the votes are cast? is he going after anybody by name or is he going bigger? >> reporter: well, anderson, i think donald trump just summed up his closing argument a few moments ago. he said, yes, we are angry. this is about a movement that is driven by voter anger and he's basically saying what he's argued all along. he's hitting the same lines that his audience seemed to expect and he can almost recite it himself. scrap obamacare and the iran nuclear deal. the trump doesn't do their own internal polling, they say, and that's why it appears that donald trump doesn't mind going after jeb bush even though trum

corey lewandowski pu. up kn you know, we learned a lot about ground games and the entire staff.s is hope, this is hope. nobody takes more phone calls in a day than hope. thank you, hope, and corey. the entire group, the entire staff. incredible job. get over here. come here. what a guy. that's the man. [ crowd chanting ] >> so again, we have to thank the candidates because they really ran -- we have some very talented people. and to be victorious against some of these people, even if it's for one week, but believe me, it's going to be for many of weeks, okay? they really are terrific. a number of them called. i just wanted to thank them but i wanted to congratulate the other candidates, okay? now that i got that over with, you know, it's always tough and then tomorrow boom, boom. but that's the way it is. and really, we have some real talent, real talent in the republican party and the rnc and reince, we want to thank everybody. thank you very much. well, i'll tell up, what i'll tell you you what, what do we really want to thank, right? we want to thank the people of new hampshi

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i know that corey lewandowski, his campaign guy, thought that the softer side of donald trump after new hampshire was a real winner, and that's true. i like the softer side of donald trump. but i think it's pretty baked in that donald trump is a rough guy. so i think it's a little late to start pulling negative ads in hopes south carolina voters see donald trump as a softy. >> ben, yesterday jay carney, former white house press secretary, said that he thinks it's pretty clear that president obama supports hillary clinton. you worked at the white house. is that fair? >> look, i don't think the president is going to make an endorsement. >> that's not what i'm asking, though. >> i think that the governing style of secretary clinton and her vision is more similar to president obama's. president obama is a pragmatist. he's a progressive but a pragmatist who always believed in reaching across the aisle to get things done. >> and your buddy, bill burton, says he thinks it's a mistake bernie sanders is so directly running against the obama presidency. >> well, today bernie sanders said that he

to me is while he is independent of the koch organization and is not asking for their money, corey lewandowski who is the chairman of his campaign is, his last job was working for americans for prosperity, the koch political group. their group acts in many ways as a training camp for many people on the right in american politics at this point. >> the other part that we must know is what's happened with the money thing. i'm sure you saw the new york times article in october that 156 families a 50 percent, basically half of all the money given in the first half of 201 , that we are down to that many families giving that much money in the course of representational democracy so the question is, and i'm also fascinated in 2012 at the end of it that they are all upset and frustrated because they wereoutmaneuvered in their view .they start investing in technology, ways to age races in a precise way in a micro-targeting way and the way they are convinced the obama folks had mastered and the democratic party. you have a section about these new things like i 360 and all these various things.i just fasc

i should point out the campaign led by a new hampshire native, corey lewandowski is feeling confident for tonight. but we've seen donald trump shift gears in terms of his demeanor. you recall after he lost in iowa he delivered that gracious concession speak to ted cruz. the next day he went on the attack, savaged cruz and accused him of cheating. we know trump will be nice until he feels like he has to go on the war path. his campaign has prepared an attack ad aimed at cruz down in south carolina so it won't be mr. nice guy very long. we'll probably see a nice feeling trump later on if all goes well. it's pretty cramped inside this election watch party. it's going to be interesting to watch. he typically has these big arena-sized crowds. it might affect the mood. might not be nice, jake. >> all right. let's talk about all of this with our panel of top republicans, national spokeswoman for the donald trump campaign, katrina pierson, the communications director for marco rubio's campaign, alex conent. ana navarro who's a jeb bush supporter and friend of marco rubio and republican strate

to corey lewandowski's point, he knows new hampshire very well. he's worked in new hampshire.been up there a couple election cycles. new hampshire -- iowa is built for ted cruz. it does have the evangelical base. new hampshire is built for donald trump in the sense you do have blue collar republicans. suburbanites people who moved up from massachusetts to escape the taxes in massachusetts. the republicans who moved up there. new hampshire does have a great constituency for donald trump. it's a former more industrial state. the rivers go through the mill tine towns. he can make the case about china, about immigration and will have a very receptive audience. the question for me is he going to play the blue collar lane or get caught looking to his right and have a fight? you can find conservative libertarian voters in new hampshire. does he look right and compete there or look at the romney map? if you look at the romney map, more mainstream moderate republicans, you have rubio, kasich, christie, and bush all between 10 and 15 points right now and carly fiorina getting a chunk of

corey lewandowski is donald trump's campaign manager, he is from here. he's expected to know new hampshire. if they were not able to come away with a win here, especially after he's been leading with all the polls and with the crowds he's drawing, i would say it would certainly be a big disappointment. hold on, can we talk about that sound bite donald trump just made. he does have a point when it comes to the third place winner came in first and the first place winner -- or the second place winner is a loser. there was a great "daily show" clip talking about the expectation game and how it just twists everything around and makes the third place winner, marco rubio, the first place winner. he's got a point. got the most votes in iowa caucus gop history, more than santorum, more than mike huckabee, except for ted cruz during that contest. so donald trump did have a really great showing, considering that he's a first-time politician. he has seven delegates, cruz has eight dealts, marco rubio also has seven delegates. so the idea that they have no momentum c

i also talked very quickly with campaign manager corey lewandowski, who is a new hampshire native, and he echoed the candidate's comments saying at this point he just wants to watch these numbers roll in and after iowa, who can blame them. >> it's an hour or so until most of the new hampshire polls close, the rest close two hours from now. what's the mood like at trump headquarters? >> reporter: well, wolf, we've talked to you from so many trump events at big arena, big auditorium events where they have 5,000 to 10,000 people crammed in. i can tell you earlier i walked inside this ballroom behind me. it is a fraction of the size of that, and right now there is a very large stream of trump supporters in line waiting to get in and it got so hectic at one point in just the last several minutes, wolf, there were people at the front door where the supporters were trying to go in pushing people back saying, hey, wait a minute, keep calm, we're trying to keep things under control here. there is such a huge demand to get into this election night party that they're pushing people away from the

corey lewandowski said iowa was about explaining the caucus process to supporters, whereas new hampshire is about getting voters to the polls. he told me over the phone you're not hearing ted cruz brag about his ground operation here in new hampshire. wolf. >> all right, jim acosta, thank you very much. let's get to the breaking news. our brand new cnn/wmur poll conducted by the university of new hampshire survey center shows donald trump, marco rubio and ted cruz running 1, 2, 3. a lot of new hampshire republicans still have not yet made up their minds. our cnn political director is here with me going through those numbers. >> let's look at where the race stands heading into primary day tomorrow. our latest tracking poll shows trump at 31%, rubio 17%, cruz at 14%, you see john kasich at 10% and jeb bush at 7%. what you see obviously is donald trump way out in front and a real battle for second place between several candidates there and sort of who gets the ticket out of new hampshire. look at how it changed over time. if you look at where our tracking poll was a couple days ago, you see

campaign manager corey lewandowski says iowa was informing voters about the caucus process and new hampshirew hampshire anymore. jim acosta, cnn, manchester, new hampshire. >> so much to discuss. more hon what can happen to the republican field. joined by republican consultant john thomas, one. wisemen without his partner and marie morel. welcome, ann marie. we need another woman at the table. you'll be okay. you know, got to put to you what happened earlier on in the evening at a donald trump rally where some offensive language was used to describe trumptz i want to listen to the moment. let's play it for our viewers and anne marie, i would like for you to weigh in. >> you heard the other night at the debate. they asked ted cruz serious question, well, what do you think of waterboarding and is it okay and honest life i thought he'd say absolutely. he was concerned about the answer because some people -- she just said a terrible thing. you know what she said? shout it out because i don't want to -- [ bleep ]. >> okay. you're not allowed to say, and i never expect to hear that from you again.

army year ago i spoke to trump and he was hiring corey lewandowski. people in iowa, in south carolina and there's a sense in february of 2015 on my reporting that he was going to run a serious campaign, that he was likely to run and i followed the story and i think if you look for the clues over the past year, you saw trump really entering the arena and wanting to do it. and what we saw last night was the culmination of that effort. >> and by the way, anybody who thinks they know how i'm going to vote has no idea. because i'm like new hampshire voters, steve kornacki, i don't know who i'm going to vote for. >> same here. >> i had no idea in 2012 that i was going to go and immediately look at the list and vote for ron paul, but i did. and i have no idea who i'm going to vote for this time, either, but at the same time my job here is to be sort of like a political john madden, it doesn't matter whether i coach the raiders or not, if you've got a quarterback with a hot hand you say that quarterback's got a hot hand and he can take this team to the super