Bill Kristol

So you really tie it, therefore, not just around Trump, but around the Republican Congress.

And Ossoff's an incumbent, so it's a little different.

He's not running against an incumbent.

since his challenger is going to be endorsed by Trump and will have phrased this bill, he can say, you want a Republican Congress?

You're damaging rural hospitals.

I mean, the causality, I think, is important.

It's sort of part of your point about the coherence of the message.

Patrick Schmidt, my young friend who's running in Kansas, just filed, I guess, last week.

I mean, he says what's powerful when he's begun to go talk to people is

The soybeans are rotting in the silos or whatever, and it's due to Trump's tariff policy.

It's not just, gee, it's a kind of bad year on the farm.

So I think tying it to the particular reasonable degree of specificity to the particular policies of Trump –

and the particular votes of Republicans in Congress that either are going along with Trump and the tax bill, or at least not challenging Trump on tariffs, I think that gives you the real oomph to say, in Schmitt's case, he's running against an incumbent.

What's this guy doing?

He's doing nothing to represent, to protect Kansas' farmers against Trump, whom he loves and just votes mindlessly in favor of.

So I think the Democratic message is kind of coming together, don't you think, a little bit among these different candidates?

Yeah.

I'm betraying my— On the west side of New York, the west side of New York, they do rot.

He knows about soybeans, yeah.

Don't hold him responsible for my Upper West Side of Manhattan ignorance about soybeans.