David French

I mean, I will say, obviously, there are events that can occur.

Here's a wild card.

One of the things that could actually end up helping Trump quite a bit is that the Supreme Court strikes down his tariffs.

Because right now, a Trump policy is a huge drag on the economy.

So I think if the Supreme Court reverses the tariffs, you might actually see kind of a burst of economic activity and optimism that would be in spite of Trump, not because of Trump, but that he, because presidents always benefit from a positive economic development.

So I could see that there are events in the future that I could imagine helping Trump, events.

What I cannot see helping Trump is Trump.

who I cannot see helping Trump, is MAGA.

You'll see a few peel off, a few more in addition, I think, from Lauren Boebert and Massey and some of the others who have pushed forward.

And you're going to see a few more peel off because there's this kind of calculus going on right now.

And that calculus is we know that there is going to be a point in which Donald Trump is a lame duck.

And we're going to have a point where Donald Trump is an anchor on me and my career.

Mimi, what about me?

People are going to be starting to make these kinds of determinations at an increasing rate, you know, with every month that passes and we get closer and closer to the end of Trump's term.

And also maybe even closer and closer to the midterms, because for all of the bluster you saw online about, oh, big deal, Democrats won in blue states, there actually is alarm about what happened.

on election day.

And so I think you're going to see, again, I hate to keep using this word, it's a broken record, incremental.

It's just going to be incremental.

So I think of it as short-term, long-term.

So I think in the short term, I think Jamel's exactly correct that it would be in many ways, I think, political malpractice for Democrats not to focus on this because voters do actually care about it.