Dave Weigel

Sorry about the hurricane.

I'm giving it to my friends.

Events change things.

I'm not impugning what Mamdani did because it's historic.

And he changed electorate.

And I don't think any candidate added as many Democrats to the voter rolls as they campaigned.

It's more than 150,000 people voted.

joining the party to vote for Zoran successfully last night.

But yeah, it was different than the rest of these races because Sheryl and Spanberger, who won by landslides and like real landslides, not like 1.2 percent.

But if you look at the swing state, yeah, no, like a real landslide, like one that carried along Democrats who did not think they were going to win their local races and

They both ran overlapping campaigns that you set up pretty well.

Costs are too high.

Donald Trump is hurting you on purpose through tariffs and through Doge firings and through canceling the gateway tunnel.

And I'm not going to get distracted by other stuff.

That was their campaigns.

And I was writing another piece for the newsletter about.

We campaign reporters need to appreciate that our interests of writing interesting stories and new stuff every day or so are across purposes with candidates who want to be consistent.

So I was noticing in the last week as I was in these states and last place I went to were New Jersey and New York.

And finding it looked like a Democratic electorate looked like they were probably going to win that they didn't think they win by this much.

And then I would see commentary that said, well, look at this boring Mikey Sherrill answer.