With a nasty winter storm halting other presidential campaigns in Iowa, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) plowed ahead — even though that meant meeting the sole attendee at his latest event. "The very last event of the night, we actually had a whopping total of one person show up, but by God, he was glad to see me," O'Malley, who is far behind rival Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nod, said Tuesday on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "So we spent the time with him."
The voter didn't leave convinced. Though O'Malley spent the event "working on him," O'Malley explained, he just wanted "to see the whole campaign play out" before settling on any one candidate. Still, O'Malley was just happy somebody came. "We almost canceled that last event but we were out there anyway," O'Malley said, "so we plowed through."
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