Sanders Adviser: Clinton Has Developed a Top-Down Fundraising System

MITCHELL: “And the bus. The Bernie bus in Iowa. Is that part of the strategy to get him to rural areas? Because you need him to get out of the university centers and out of other areas where he’s getting those huge crowds.”
DEVINE: “It is. It is really important in Iowa that we get a  great turnout around the state. We are not just focusing on population centers.This is not a primary, first pass [indecipherable] for whoever wins the most votes wins. This is a caucus system where we have to get people to come to caucuses, win delegate equivalencies, and thereby prevail. So, yeah, we will be all across the state and he loves that kind of campaigning." ”
MITCHELL: “What about the fact that she’s leaving Iowa to do some fundraising this week. What does that tell you about the long-term in the campaign? And his ability to match dollar for dollar?”
DEVINE: "What it tells me is that they’ve developed a top/down fundraising system that relies on maximum contributors. We designed the bottom up fundraising system. And if we can't succeed, we believe more than 1 million people who made more than $2.5 contributions will contribute again with enormous resources to take this from the four or five states where we’re running television [ads]. And, by the way, we just announced a few minutes ago that we’re going on television in South Carolina. So we will be the first campaign to run statewide advertising in South Carolina as we were the first to run it  in Nevada as well. We are going to take that to a lot of other states because if we receive the kind of resources that we think we can, I think we’ll have a resource advantage going into March.”
MITCHELL: “See you in Iowa in a couple of days. Thank you very, Ted Devine.”