Bill Kristol

It's not as if –

The Dems are playing defense.

They're only playing defense to the degree they're making themselves play defense.

They need to stay on offense.

And the numbers are pretty astonishing on ICE, honestly.

I mean, you know, for the issue that was the weakest one for the Democrats, immigration, oh, my God, they can't talk about it.

That was just a year ago, right?

Trump's immigration, Trump's mass deportation policy and everything that it has brought with it, the violence, the violations of civil rights and so forth, the bigotry is really unpopular.

I mean, the pattern's gotten pretty convincing, I would just say, of these special elections.

This one sounds like it's a little more of a, do you think a non-college kind of white working class district as opposed to

Maybe outside Houston, which is a little more upper middle class, I would say, from last week.

But no, but that's, I only mentioned this because that is, I mean, Ron Brownstein, I had a podcast with him yesterday on the bulwark on Sunday.

I mean, the degree to which it's so important for Democrats to make some dent in the white working class vote, especially the white working class women, where there has been some unhappiness with Trump, both on economic grounds for some of the working class voters, but also politically.

especially I think on some of the ICE stuff and that kind of thing.

And also whether evangelicals has been the core of Trump's support, but in districts, Louisiana is a little exceptional that way, right?

Because it's so Catholic and stuff.

So maybe there's a little more give in Louisiana among some of these voters.

I mean, who knows?

It's a small electorate, as you say, and I'm sure there were local issues and all that, but there's enough data now that it feels kind of wavish here.

And I will see if Democrats can really take advantage of it, but.