David Plouffe

and in places that we haven't been able to win recently.

And in order to do that, we have to fundamentally change our offering to the American people in my view.

You see a few.

We'll see if Plattner gets to his primary.

James Tallarico, I think.

He's, you know, yeah.

I mean, I think he's been, I think, somewhat critical of Democratic leadership.

But we need to see a lot more.

I just think we have to expand our view.

of where we are and where we need to go.

And I think we just got done with the college football playoff, NFL playoffs.

This isn't like it's a fourth and one and we can do the tush push, okay?

This is like fourth and six, fourth and eight.

Right now, you're going to convert that much less than 50% of the time.

How do you improve your odds there?

And the truth is, again, I think the Republicans, at least through 26 and maybe through 28, we'll see here, their nominee has a chance to kind of

and create some change as well with voters.

But they're kind of stuck.

That's the point at the end of my piece I really wanted people to focus on, which is this is a gift.

As bad as things are right now for the Democratic Party, it's a gift.