Domenico Montanaro

That's why these elections are run by those officials, those local officials in those states.

Well, I mean when you talk about voters, we have to talk about which voters, right?

Because Republican-based voters, those who identify as MAGA, Trump voters, they're not likely to be swayed over anything, right?

I mean this is a group that is core, that is strong to Trump.

I remember a Republican strategist telling me.

In the 2016 election that most people have a slice of the pie, his slice of the pie is made of titanium.

OK, so you could cast that aside.

But when you're looking at moderates and especially Republicans who are running in these districts that are swing districts where moderates are going to decide those elections.

And when you think about Democratic moderates who would have been all for funding homeland security in general, you're seeing a lot of that middle sort of coalesce to say, you know, this isn't right.

This is going too far and they want de-escalation and a tamping down of the rhetoric at the very least.

Yeah, it's quite viable.

We could see a partial government shutdown by the end of this week because Democrats now are saying there's no way that they're voting for more DHS funding based on these kinds of tactics.

And they're trying to say they're going to do that, but then point the finger at Republicans and say if they want to include DHS funding in this spending package to keep the government open, then it's on Republicans.

So again, like we saw toward the end of the year last year,

We're seeing fingers pointed in either direction for who would be to blame here.

And Democrats feel like now they have the politics on their side because of what we're seeing here.

And since we're talking about senators, I found it really notable when you look at some of these Republican moderate senators like Tom Tillis of North Carolina, who happens to be retiring.

He called for a thorough and impartial investigation into the shooting.

Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican from Louisiana, said again, called for a, quote, full joint federal and state investigation.

Joint, he said there.