Dan Pfeiffer
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Yes.
Let's pivot to domestic politics for a second.
Another reason why you're an excellent guest for the show is even before you went to work for Barack Obama, you were at the DCCC when the Democrats took the House in 2006.
You've worked on a lot of campaigns in your life.
Sort of in the initial –
This is even before – like Democrats were probably favored to take the House before the war.
Depending on how this goes or how long it stands, that's obviously going to probably not be great for Trump and the Republicans.
But right now, as we look at the – the main conversation about the midterms has been
about the primaries, Democratic primaries, right?
With the amount of attention that was spent on both in Texas and nationally, I'm sure on your network and our network as well, on the Texas primary between James Tallarico and Jasmine Crockett,
Honestly, we have spent so much time talking about the Maine primary.
There's a fascinating Michigan primary coming up in a couple months.
There's another primary in Massachusetts, another one in Minnesota.
As you sort of look at – Democrats currently are a party a little bit adrift in terms of what we stand for.
These primaries are supposed to be, I think, a way of trying to figure that out.
What do you see sort of as the major dividing lines in the party that's sort of manifesting itself in the primaries here?
And it could be that the primaries are each individually different, but curious your take on it.
Yeah.
So I think it's that the focus on Texas was interesting because I think it's the least relevant of all of the divides because I sort of see that I see there are sort of three divides that are sort of dominating the party.
One is.