Britt McHenry

Look, there's still a lot of tallying going on, but I think you hit the nail on the head with Democrats using this at midnight.

They didn't have to.

It could be 19 minutes after 7 o'clock Eastern time and with the other states' performances to really start their 2026 comeback.

And we've talked about here how the federal government shutdown likely was a factor.

If you give 35 days off to people, which the Democrats...

did on purpose for the ACA and, quite frankly, what we're seeing tonight.

That gives time to people to vote, to show up.

Let me just give you a couple numbers here.

Steve, I know you mentioned them, but Spanberger won 77% of early by-mail votes.

That's what we were talking about.

58 of early in-person votes, 58%, and 53% of the votes on Election Day.

Now, this is not atypical for Republicans.

Mark, I'm sure you can see off on this.

It's historically been, possibly will change as...

the younger age group gets older, right, with in-person versus mail-in voting.

But if the Democrat is winning by 53% on the day of in-person voting, that tells you all you need to know.

And you're exactly right.

Imagine if Abigail Spanberger had said anything in that debate about Jay Jones, which she should have, because fantasizing about

shooting children and your opponent should be a non-factor, and he actually got a large turnout of female votes, which is shocking.

If she had said one thing, that's a 1% difference.