Ezra Klein

given the level of humanitarian devastation that was currently being inflicted by Israel upon Gaza.

My colleague Michelle Goldberg had a great profile of him.

And, you know, she mentions like a Haaretz piece, which is like the liberal Israeli newspaper saying, well, this position is going to make it much harder for Ossoff to win in Georgia.

And no, it put Ossoff in position, right?

to actually navigate this in a way the others are gonna have a lot of trouble with.

Josh Shapiro is gonna have a lot of trouble here, is already having a lot of trouble here.

But if you go too far to the other side, you're gonna need somebody who can represent both sides of the divide at once.

And Asif, who is one centering on a corruption story,

who is too centering on a he moves a corruption critique into an argument for liberal pluralism.

Yes.

Right.

It's sort of a populist critique with a liberal pluralist answer.

Right.

Talks a lot about values, talks a lot about being rooted in the civil rights movement and then is able to navigate this dimension of the party's schism.

He's also done something on corruption that I have struggled to do, and I don't know if you felt the same way.

The corruption is so overwhelming.

And you can hear my voice right now, like so.

It leaves me speechless.

It's so brazen.

It's so insane.