“I’ve been telling my neighbors for two years that this is not who we are. The overtly fascist rhetoric. The demonizing, vilifying, verminizing—if that’s a verb—of the other. I keep telling people that’s not who we are. But if in these midterms, with this first opportunity to correct our mistake, people vote for ‘this,’ then maybe that’s who we’ve become.”

— Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), paraphrasing another candidate to Esquire.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) has scheduled a trip to New Hampshire, where he might be laying the groundwork for a second presidential run, the Boston Globe reports.

“His April 23 visit to the Granite State marks his first trip there since the November general election. He will have multiple stops on that day, including events in Salem and Bedford… O’Malley has visited Iowa twice recently. Last week he held a town hall in South Carolina, which holds a primary soon after New Hampshire on the presidential nominating calendar.”

From a BuzzFeed interview:

Martin O’Malley remembers running for president like this: He is on a train, heading for a bridge. He can see the bridge is giving out. He is shouting and waving and pointing at a “better lane,” he says. “But it’s like I couldn’t get anybody on the train to listen.”

“It was the most frustrating experience I’ve ever had in politics.”

Martin O’Malley “took out a loan to keep his Democratic presidential campaign afloat late last year, and repaid it with matching funds received in January,” the New York Times reports.

“Many of his senior and junior aides also have been unpaid since he moved most of them to Iowa.”

“Martin O’Malley has rarely broken above 5% in Iowa polls, but on caucus night he could be the most popular person in the room — or, rather, his supporters will be, as activists for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders desperately try to scoop them up,” the New York Times reports.

“The arcane rules of Iowa’s Democratic caucuses mean that most O’Malley supporters will be ruled ‘nonviable’ if he does not get 15% support at a caucus; his supporters will then be up for grabs by another candidate. With polls showing the race between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders narrowing to a near tie, O’Malley supporters, along with attendees who enter their neighborhood caucuses undecided, could swing the results.”

Martin O’Malley “is dangerously close to missing the next Democratic presidential debate,” CNN reports.

“NBC News released the criteria for its January 17 debate — the Democrats’ last before the primary voting season kicks off in February — and the former Maryland governor is hanging on a razor’s edge.”

The Ohio Secretary of State has rejected Martin O’Malley’s petition to be placed on the Democratic presidential primary ballot, according to Ballot Access News.

He needed 1,000 signatures and submitted 1,175. He has been told that only 772 signatures are valid.

“With barely 10 weeks before Democrats start picking their presidential nominee, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley’s campaign is perilously close to financial collapse,” the Washington Post reports.

“The Democratic hopeful this week began asking the roughly 30 staffers at his Baltimore headquarters to redeploy to Iowa and elsewhere, a tacit acknowledgment that he will need a surprisingly strong showing in the first caucus state to stay in the race.”

Martin O’Malley’s “financially strapped presidential campaign is reallocating resources to reduce the size of its headquarters staff and focus on the early presidential nominating states, and especially Iowa,” NBC News reports.

“The former Maryland governor has been mired in the low single digits in polls and struggled to raise the money necessary to support his relatively large operation. After Saturday night’s Democratic presidential debate in Iowa, O’Malley’s staff were alerted there would be a shift away from the campaign’s Baltimore headquarters to its field operations in the early states.”

A new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds former Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) gets just 4% support in his home state for his Democratic presidential bid.

Martin O’Malley “has been introducing himself to Democratic voters for months in speeches, at rubber-chicken dinners and most recently in a Snapchat video in which he is shown studying on his iPad while doing a plank, in a tank top, at the gym. But he still is almost nowhere in the polls,” the New York Times reports.

“On Tuesday he will have what could be his best chance to grab the kind of attention that could get his candidacy off the ground.”

A new Goucher poll in Maryland finds Martin O’Malley (D) has made no headway in the presidential race even in his home state.

Hillary Clinton leads the Democratic field with 43%, followed by Joe Biden at 23% and Bernie Sanders at 17%. The former governor gets just 2% support.

“A super PAC supporting Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley has laid off 38 organizers in Iowa — about three-quarters of its staff here,” the Washington Post reports.

“Generation Forward, a political action committee launched by longtime O’Malley aides and other boosters, maintains 13 people on the ground in the nation’s first nominating state, spokesman Ron Boehmer said Wednesday night.”

Martin O’Malley “had one clear chance to make waves within the Democratic National Committee, and he seized it, delivering a fiery speech Friday that condemned his party’s leadership for what he called a process ‘rigged’ to help Hillary Clinton — namely, curtailing the number of presidential primary debates,” the New York Times reports.

Said O’Malley: “This is totally unprecedented in our party’s history. This sort of rigged process has never been attempted before. Whose decree is it exactly? Where did it come from? To what end? For what purpose? What national or party interest does this decree serve? How does this help us tell the story of the last eight years of Democratic progress?”