Amanda Littman

Hi, Cara.

Hi, Scott.

So I will say it's still a little early to have some hot takes on the California election results.

We'll know more at the end of the day today on Wednesday.

However, a few things I am noticing, how much money does or does not matter.

You know, Thomas Dyer spent upwards of $200 million of his own dollars on this campaign, maybe more.

Seems like unless the results come back differently and the ballots are counting now, he's not going to make it to November.

Meanwhile, down in L.A., Spencer Pratt, even if he doesn't make it all the way to the runoff, we'll see how these ballots come in for Nithya, really modeled a new way of doing this.

Mega viral user generated AI videos breaking through with really authentic video, capitalizing on the honestly candidate agnostic media ecosystem the right has built.

We have to be prepared for this.

We cannot just spend our way into victory.

We have to capture attention in order to win.

That means interesting candidates.

That means engaging messages.

That means sometimes a little bit more risk tolerance.

We've got to be willing to lean in and be a little bit more unscripted.

And that is something that is very, very hard for Democrats to do, but is the only way we're going to be able to capture the voters we need this fall.

Interesting.

That's very smart.

I agree with her.