David French

And he won by nine points, which you think, that seems pretty healthy.

No.

Well, the previous...

he replaced somebody who in 2024 won by 21 and Trump won that district by 22.

So it's a 13 point negative swing against the Republicans from the Trump numbers.

And when you look even closer, that looks even more remarkable because it's a 13 point negative swing against Republicans when he was running against somebody who won the Democratic primary pretty far left with only about 27% of the vote against

Or somewhere in that neighborhood.

She had a very narrow plurality.

Very narrow.

Who was not, and this is not a compliment, in Tennessee.

She was called the AOC of Tennessee.

Had some pretty controversial posts in the 2020 George Floyd era, including one where it kind of looked like she was celebrating burning of police stations.

And then had this hot mic, or this not hot mic, this podcast moment where she talked about how much she hated Nashville.

Yeah.

Part of her district is in Nashville.

So this was not someone designed like in a lab to contest this district.

This is a very poor fitting candidate for the district.

And she still improved by 13 points.

And so what I wrote about was what we've seen for a long time, and it's just growing and growing and growing, is the new entrance, this really phenomenal Manhattan Institute poll that I think was fascinating about the difference, what it called core Republicans and the new entrants.

Where a lot of these new entrants, which are people who are more ideologically, say, populist, more conspiratorial, et cetera, have really moved into the party.