Scalise on Trump's $5,000 dividend promise

So that's one. Is there another one out in the West or here in Texas or somewhere else? You've got a few in Iowa. You look at Zach Nunn, Mariannette Miller-Meeks are both in very, very difficult districts. Mariannette won her first race in Iowa by six votes out of over 400,000. So that shows you that's as close as you've ever seen a competitive congressional race. It's going to be competitive again. But Mariannette does a phenomenal job, and I have no doubt she'll come back. But she's battling every day. Little district-by-district conversation there with a guy who is tracking things closely. Makes sense to talk strategy with a leader like that here in a sports arena, because that is essentially what all this is, a big contest to hold on to control. Tonight, the headliner, Vice President JD Vance maybe starting to lay out his plans for a potential presidential run. But, Major, I was struck in a conversation with some folks down on the floor, the most loyal of Republican delegates, the most loyal of Republican and Trump fans, what they think about the future. Take a listen to this woman named Sharon from Tennessee. Is Vance your guy in '28? My guy is who Donald Trump endorses. So it's up to him to tell you? That's exactly right. I'll do my own research. If he told me to back or support a liberal leftist, I'd have to think twice. But I don't think that'll happen. You're that loyal? I'm very loyal. I've been loyal since he came down the escalator. People call us groupies. They call us a cult. I don't care. I've been married twice. I'm on my third marriage, 43 years. I've been called a lot worse. [LAUGHS] That kind of crowd major, vice president has his work cut out for him. Indeed. And, Ed, quickly, before I let you go, do you get a sense talking to Sharon Anderson from Tennessee and those around her, that this is an actual exercise in mobilization, that despite the doubts expressed even by some Republicans might in the end prove beneficial? I was struck in a conversation last night with one Republican lawmaker who said, Major, y'all are focused on the seats in the hall that may or may not be filled, how long he's talking, the fact that it's held this week ahead of the anniversary of 9/11. Don't focus on that. The party is shrewdly focused on the idea of finding that 36% of the country that still approves of President Trump, wherever they are across the country, to get them to turn out to vote. He said, this whole thing here-- you got the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick of Texas up there right now-- it's a content-creation factory for these 48 hours. We're clipping and snipping these videos. We're putting them out on the social media and hoping that the base finds it in their algorithm, gets motivated to donate, gets motivated to go campaign, gets motivated to vote. That's what this is. And it's not necessarily designed to get to everybody else, but to motivate that base so that the floor is a little higher for those Republicans in competitive races and they somehow pull it off. Interesting argument. Was it worth the money and time? We'll see.

Breaking it down brilliantly, as always, Ed O'Keefe. My appreciation to you, sir. Thank you.