David French

I think David's right that in terms of messages to win, all you really have to do is like announce your intention to hold the administration accountable in like, you know, concrete ways.

I do think that Democrats are going to be using the midterms to test out messages, right, to try to reach out to voters they know they're going to need in 2028.

And so I would expect to see some version of what Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said a couple of days ago, I believe.

She was like walking on the steps of the Capitol and said to a reporter, you know, they cut your healthcare to pay for this ICE stuff, right?

That's both a accountability message and like a kitchen table affordability message, right?

It's both...

They cut food stamps so they could shoot a woman in the face.

I mean, I don't know.

I don't know if anyone's going to go that like that's how if I were running for office, I would say I'm a little blunt in that regard.

But I would imagine you'll get some version of that, that like the government could be doing these things to help you.

But they cut all of that to pay for, you know, armed thugs harassing your friends and neighbors.

That, I think, is going to be the way they try to capture both ends of this.

And I actually think that's a pretty effective message, right?

I think it's both a recognition of kind of like the material stuff that people really care about and a recognition of the kind of soul of America stuff that people do really care about.

I mean, the big lesson to me of the 2025 wave, such that it was, is that Democratic voters, they want people who are going to be aggressive, right?

They want people who are going to be fighters.

But one of the results that just shocked me the most was the Virginia attorney general race, right?

Where the candidate had, you know...

Texted about.

Gosh.