“When I go out to the 100 counties and I have these conversations, whether it's in manufacturing centers or I go to small businesses or I go out to the farms and talk to people about this race, we get an absolutely great response. When I go to Raleigh, there's a lot of hand-wringing.”

It's not going to work here.

…there on those guys. Those guys were always consistently behind. Polls have not given enough credit to Republicans in North Carolina. Are you concerned that people are falling into the trap of, oh, North Carolina is It's not even a race right now. I want you to kind of tee off on that if you can.

When I go to Washington, D.C., there's a lot of hand-wringing.

And people worry about those polls, and you just point out the fact North Carolina always closes late. And we really are focused right now on the fundamentals, the building blocks of this campaign, of getting out there, building our infrastructure.

We're knocking on doors. We're making phone calls.