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One person shows up to O'Malley event in Iowa, remains uncommitted

By Nick Gass

Amid a vicious winter storm on Monday that forced some presidential campaigns to cancel their scheduled campaign stops in Iowa, only Martin O'Malley decided to press on.

And one man at his last event, the only person to show up, in fact, "was glad to see me," the former Maryland governor said. But he still would not commit to caucus for O'Malley.

"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. So we spent the time with him," the Democratic presidential candidate told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Tuesday, speaking from Des Moines.

A tweet shared by an ABC News reporter showed a bearded man, identified only as "Kenneth," sitting at a table with O'Malley, who told MSNBC that he was "working on him," but also remarked that people in Iowa "want to see the whole campaign play out" before deciding on their candidate.

"So I wasn't surprised that he was uncommitted," O'Malley said. "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."

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio had planned to visit the state but were forced to cancel those plans until a later date.