David Plouffe

We have to get competitive in more places, which means voters have to say this candidate seems a lot different, whether it's their how they talk about government.

They talk about jobs.

They talk about corruption.

They talk about their own party.

Like I think that the way I think about it is.

I always always think it's helpful.

This is a very analog thing.

But, you know, a candidate running for House or Senate this year or in the presidential campaign in 28.

How's the crowd reacting?

Hundred people in Georgia or New Hampshire or Nevada.

Are they nodding their head?

And if a candidate who says, listen, Donald Trump has been damaging to this country.

The MAGA Republicans who followed him have been.

But our institutions have damaged the country.

My own party has been complicit.

That candidate will have people nodding their head.

People will be leaning and I want to hear more.

I want to hear more.

And so that's my point, which is we have to understand the scale of the challenge here, the mission.

Democrats are called now to sustain them, to win elections much more than we have recently.