Chuck Todd
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they'd look at Ted Kennedy and John McCain and think, okay, I can mess around.
Fia Rigosa, Katie Porter, all these people that feel like they've been trying to, you know, it's sort of the also rant.
It's okay to work with the other side.
And it was a very accepted practice in the Senate.
In some ways, it was a feature, not a bug of the Senate.
Like I said, I go back.
This feels a lot like 1998, 2002 California politics where none of the big names would run.
And I think the Senate in particular, in our new polarized, and I say new polarized climate, obviously, where the politics that you and I grew up with in the 70s and 80s is not today's politics, right?
No Dianne Feinstein.
She still wouldn't run for governor.
That was still the sort of the hope that some Democrats had.
The divides may look familiar, but it's different.
No Barbara Boxer running or anything like that.
And the lesser known sort of nebbish at the time, not everybody was thrilled with it.
And
You keep bringing up Sam Nunn.
Sam Nunn was my father's dream candidate for president.
Gray Davis sort of sneaks through because they didn't want the they didn't want a rich guy owning the party from on the outside.
He was recovering.
He was a Reagan Democrat who never went back to the Democratic Party.