Dan Pfeiffer

Voters leave one side and you have to persuade them to come over to your side.

Step one has happened.

Step two has not yet happened.

There are opportunities for that to happen.

There are things we're going to have to do.

The Democratic approval rating, as you point out, is abysmal.

Also, if you compare Republican versus Democrat trust on the issues, yes, Trump is 30 points underwater on inflation, but we're essentially tied, generic Democrats tied with a generic Republican on inflation.

And in some of these House races are sort of a generic Democrat versus a generic Republican.

We're going to have to continue to make

that case.

That individual Democrat is going to have to show why they are better than a generic Democrat on inflation or cost of living and a whole host of other issues.

And so there's a lot of work to do.

The way I would put it is this is a historic opportunity for the party.

The political

storm clouds have aligned as such that we have a shot to have a very, very big election.

We have work to do to get there.

That includes improving the party brand.

It includes our candidates running good races.

It includes having enough money to be able to compete in some of these Trump plus 10, Trump plus 12, Trump plus 13 seats that are on the cusp of possibly tipping if we do everything right.

It means being able to compete aggressively in all these expansion Senate states like