David French

That would be my advice in terms – but that never works, right?

Every midterm cycle when it's going to be bad for the president's party, people are like, yeah, you got to keep things local.

And it never works, right?

Like voters understand these things to be referendums on the president.

Can I just say – this can be cut.

If this is too much, this can be cut.

Just –

And depending on how much time he's been online – and Trump talks about this.

He was like, things are going so well.

Maybe we don't have to have midterms.

And there was this chit-chatter on the internet about the president canceling the election.

And I just – I feel like since we're having this conversation about the midterms, I feel obligated to say that that's not a thing.

And I know the response is going to be –

Look, he does everything else he wants.

And I think that actually intelligent response to that is like, actually, there's a lot of things on which he stopped or he's blocked.

But that in a very practical sense, right, like states run elections, states run federal elections, not the president.

The president has no role in federal elections.

The president has no role certifying federal elections.

The president has no role seating members of Congress.

When it comes to the conduct of federal elections and the results, at least for legislative elections, the president is just a guy.