Democratic presidential challenger Martin O'Malley may have been the only 2016 hopeful who kept all of his scheduled events on the books following winter storms on Monday that forced other candidates to cancel their Iowa stops. But at the last event of the evening, only one man showed up.
"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 told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" in an interview on Tuesday, Politico reported. "So we spent the time with him."
But even with that one-on-one time when O'Malley said he was "working on him," the man appeared to walk away uncommitted to the former governor of Maryland. O'Malley said people in Iowa "want to see the whole campaign play out," according to The Week.
"So I wasn't surprised that he was uncommitted," said O'Malley. "But I was glad he took the time to come out in the snow to see me. We almost canceled that last event, but we were out there anyway, so we plowed through."
On Twitter, an ABC News reporter shared a picture of a bearded man, identified only as Kenneth, sitting at a table with O'Malley.
Kenneth braved the snow storm to meet with @MartinOMalley in Tama. #iawx #iacaucus pic.twitter.com/xvB9S8hDwh
— Sarah Beckman (@SarahBeckman3) December 29, 2015
In another meeting Monday with a small group that braved the Iowa storm, O'Malley said he has a plan to change how leadership works with more collaboration. "It used to be that the leader was on top of a hierarchy of command and control," he said, according to the Des Moines Register, asserting that he'd institute a more collective leadership style to the White House. "One of the assets I bring to this race ... is that of a modern way of leadership. The nature of leadership has changed in just the last 10 or 15 years."
In an average of the last five national polls, O'Malley gains the support of only 4.7 percent of those who responded, according to RealClear Politics. O'Malley has a slight bump in Iowa at 5.7 percent, but only 1.8 in New Hampshire.
Watch the video of O'Malley's appearance on MSNBC below:
