DES MOINES, Iowa



With the Iowa caucuses only seven days away, the Rand Paul campaign is working to secure students caucusing for their candidate.



Cliff Maloney, 24, is the National Youth Director for the campaign. He has been working on an initiative to have 10,000 students turnout to caucus for Paul since September. Maloney said he is confident that they will reach their goal Monday, Feb. 1.



"I always say, 'Yeah, we're talking a big game, but I expect a big game to show up on Feb. 1,'" Maloney said. "And I want the numbers to do the talking."



"In general, my sense of it is that he has a fair amount of our support," Gerry Redlinger, 26, said. "I went to a rally in Iowa City and it was very easy to get, like six friends to go with me. It wasn't even a challenge to do that and that's kind of maybe rare for a politician... and some of them weren't even Rand supporters. They just wanted to hear him."



When Redlinger first heard that the goal was to get 10,000 students out to caucus, he said he thought the number seemed low.



Anna Schuchert, 19, said that although she can't disclose the amount of students pledged to caucus for Paul from the University of Iowa, the campaign will meet its turnout goal across the state no matter what.