i want to bring in our old friend and former colleague paul ste steinhauser who is in his element right now. trump has a big lead in new hampshire according to the latest polls but still feeling the sting from iowa. what did he say to you about it? >> reporter: i talked to him this afternoon. he didn't use any profanities. he was a little more reservd. take a listen. can you continue on if you don't finish first here and you didn't finish first in iowa? >> yes, i can. but i would love to finish first here and i think i probably finished first in iowa if you add in the votes that were wrongly taken away from ben carson so i think i did really great in iowa. it's a caucus state, not the place that i'm used to. i like this much better where you go in and vote. we're going to do really well in new hampshire. >> reporter: you know, he's been up in the polls here by double-digits for so long but if donald trump doesn't win by at least 10% here, others will look at it as a loss for donald trump. anderson? >> you also pushed him a bit on his conservative credentials compared to senator cruz. >>

my first question is to paul ste ste ste steinhauser. what do you do tomorrow? >> the polls showed donald trump is leading by double digits. do you think that's going to change? do you think his change in tone helped him here in new hampshire? >> let's be honest. he's been big time in the state for a long time. if he doesn't get it, that's a loss, almost. >> is anybody surprised by how much he's winning here because the word is his ground game isn't very big here, yet he's really farah head. >> the ground game is nothing you can necessarily pick up in the polls, right? it might explain why in iowa some of the polls had him leading and then he didn't meet expectations because he didn't have an operation to get people out. a primary is a little bit different, right? people can vote all day long. the ground game is not as important in new hampshire as it is in a caucus where it's sort of everything. i think the big surprising thing is you have a series of candidates not named trump that has let this guy advance in the polls and not done much to take him down. you h