I wonder what the Trump ground game in IA will be like after the holidays. Keep in mind he gained traction this summer when he found a way to provide those helicopter rides for kids at the state fair.
It will be very intensive. He’s not going to let that state get away so the media can scream and holler about the faux Trump demise for 8 days until New Hampshire.
Those Trumpicopter rides are nuthin' when it comes to building up his ground game.
His campaign uses eventbrite to hand out tickets to his immense rallies. Through it, he automatically gains an electronic mailing list to people who went out of their way to attend his rallies. Imagine not just the value but the sheer volume of this growing list. No other campaign has this, not even the RNC itself.
Then at the rallies themselves, they have further recruitment and gotv efforts, especially in Iowa, where they instruct all that new fresh blood into navigating the caucuses.
No polling outfit seems to know how to measure all these things to gauge Trump's ground game. But his ground game exists, and it's growing.