>>> hi, everyone. i'm tamron hall . the mad dash for campaign cash. at this hour president obama is wrapping up his two-day fundraising push in california while mitt romney raising cash in missouri. it comes with news that mitt romney and the rnc outraised the president and democrats. the romney campaign reports bringing in nearly $77 million last month. compared with team obama 's $60 million. politico reports, this is the first month when we've had a direct hard dollar comparison between obama and romney on fundraising . and the results cast an even darker shadow on an already disappointing week for democrats. this morning, dnc chair woman spoke with thomas roberts and insisted democrats are doing just fine.
>> it's not really surprising that the republicans were able to pull down a lot of low hanging fruit. they just formed the romney campaign and the rnc just form their joint fundraising committee. we're very comfortable and confident that we're thrilled the fundraising that came in this month for us are on track to have the resources that we need.
>> let's bring in nbc news political reporter mark murray . let's get behind the story. why is the rnc doing, at least in the last month?
>> it is very good news for them. the reason mitt romney is doing well, he just became the republican nominee which allows him to combine a fundraising committee with the republican national committee . and even some state republican parties so when mitt romney has a big fund-raiser, he can collect up to $75,000 from people. and it gets distributed to these different committees. some go to the campaign. some go to the rnc. some go toward the romney victory fund . president obama has the same type of apparatus. it has been set up for more than a year. one of the reasons, you heard debbie wasserman schultz say that this is the first time that big romney donors, big republican donors can start cutting the really big five figure checks to the campaign and to those committees.
>> jim messina apparently made a video pep talk saying we need to stay focused, work hard and ignore the ups and downs . that was in response to some of the less than good news coming out. especially, of course, the most important being that jobs number. regarding the outraising of cash here, the president was or is in california. he is in nevada now. where a lot of people has come from that state alone.
>> he's been doing a lot of the fundraising with the lgbt communicate. with one of those fund-raisers last night. tamron, i think one of the bigger dynamics, you have your very big democratic donors, the people who are writing these $30,000, $50,000 checks. you have your very big republican donors. people writing the $75,000 checks. the question with the obama campaign is hoping for that its grassroots is able to provide a lot of money. where people donating $50, $100 a month. that that becomes dynamic. and actuallier is passes a lot of what you see as the low fruit from both political parties .
>> there was an article just yesterday regarding big donors. those that helped make the obama campaign so successful the first time around. some of them may be missing in action . they may certainly jump into the pot but right now the question was, where are the big bundlers?
>> that's why the grassroots operation is so big for them and why they've had so many fund-raisers where they say, hey, could you chip in $3. chip in $10. if they can get people to do that three or four or five time where those people are giving $100, $150 through the campaign, you add that list they had to some $10 million or more people. that is a lot of money. the thing to note is that we're just talking about the rnc, dnc campaign money. we're not even talking about the outside groups where republicans probably have a very, very big advantage.
>> and you're talking about of course the super pac money and debbie wasserman schultz regarded them as truly disturbing. in her words you have a handful of billionaires who are gearing up to buy the white house and that's what we're up against. a direct quote from debbie wasserman schultz regarding the super pac money coming in.
>> right now republicans have the very big super pac advantage. there are some democratic super pacs out there but republicans are hoping these outside groups are able to almost bury the obama campaign with the romney rnc money that's out there. the other thing to look at all this money, we're talking about maybe billions of dollars that are being spent on tv ads. so all that money could get canceled out at the end of the day .
>> thank you. let me bring in executive director of the national committee. thank you for joining me again. the press secretary said we knew this day would come. that was his reaction to the may fundraising numbers.
>> we absolutely expect these kinds of numbers from the romney camp. in a comparable period in 2004 , john kerry outraised george bush by a ratio of 2-1. once he had consolidated report. it is a natural bump. we also know that he has the outside super pacs that are going to continue to spend at an astronomical clip to try to misrepresent our record. we're going to contrast that with the nearly 2.2 million americans who have written checks to president obama . they will vote on doors to get the word out about all this president has accomplished and all he will do to bring change.
>> i don't want to draw a hard line . i have to make the comparison between what you just said regarding getting out the grassroots campaign with what the democrats in wisconsin were saying before the loss there, that it was grassroots. the day after scott walker won, it was 10-1, 7-1. depending on the source. so help me understand the difference. the language really sounds very similar even though we're focused on one state versus the national campaign for the president.
>> well, there's a rather stark difference. obviously what took place in wisconsin was article election. i'm sure you've seen the polling that says over 70% of wisconsin residents thought that the recall process was not the legitimate way to reprosecute the campaign from 2010 . this is an entirely different circumstance. we have an incumbent president who has spent years working up to change in this country. growing jobs in this country and a campaign at the grassroots that has both a deep infrastructure in every single one of the states and we know that has to be down to our benefit come november 6th .
>> we know the campaign is focused on drawing in, as you mentioned, new donors. getting, as one person said, they're not looking at getting the support of so-called special interests . to get those new donors in, we need them to be enthusiastic. about the campaign. we need them to get out and support this president. there's a report from the associated press. the headline is cruel june for obama . could get worse. they talk about the loss in wisconsin . last week's unemployment, the supreme court decision that could come down in june on health care . the decision on the immigration law in arizona and also, the battle to fill congresswoman gifford's house seat as well.
>> i am in washington, d.c. and i know it is the nature of this town to always be in panic and to elevate every single headline as if it is the entire narrative. june does not an entire campaign make. i can well remember working president 's campaign in 2008 and folks were on this show and others talking about how we couldn't win the primary contest, we would lose in the general campaign once sarah palin went again us in the campaign. we expect that because of the infrastructure that we've built, the animated organizers and activists that we have across this country, and the fact that this president has a real strong record to run on, and continues to call on republican leaders in congress to work with him, to continue our forward expansion on jobs to make sure that we hire teachers, firefighters and construction workers this year instead of running on the clock as republicans are wont to do.
>> thank you very much.
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