David French

Yeah, that sounds basically right.

If Republicans hold on to both chambers, then it's sort of all bets are off for the next two years after that.

At least two years.

Yeah.

I mean, a lot of this is about expectations.

It's always about expectations.

Right.

So I think the expectation right now is that Democrats are probably going to win back the House.

Right.

I'm not sure anyone has a sense of the scale of that, and that's going to shape how people react as well.

If it's a narrow win, right, like narrowly take back the House, I think that would be read as basically like a good performance for Republicans.

If Democrats sort of crash through, you know, the wall like the Kool-Aid man and take take back the House, then that's going to be taken as like a major repudiation.

And likewise with the Senate.

Any scenario in which Democrats take the Senate, which is a very tough reach for them right now, is a scenario in which there really has been, I think, a decisive repudiation of what the administration's been doing.

And I think in that world, Republicans are going to be like, OK, we got to spend the next two years distancing ourselves from Trump.

Now, the trouble, the trouble is that Trump does not want to be distanced from Trump.

So there will be a push, but there's also going to be a pull.

It's like trying to break up with the most toxic partner you can imagine.

Yeah.

Jamel?