In this episode, national political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns talked with Iowa GOP chairman Jeff Kaufmann and Norm Sterzenbach, a Des Moines-based Democratic strategist, about the battleground state of Iowa. Polling analyst David Byler chatted with David Seawright of Deep Root Analytics about how campaigns are using new tools to engage voters. And RealClearPolitics co-founder Tom Bevan got debate insights from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump surrogates in the spin room at Hofstra University.