Jon Lovett
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It was seven in Tennessee, nine in Arizona, eight in Virginia, 11 and eight in those two Florida specials.
Now, you know, you're going to get a big larger turnout in the midterms, right?
So that makes it slightly harder, though the turnout in Tennessee in that race was like midterm level turnout.
It was actually the same as the midterm.
So you get that kind of turn.
So it was a pretty, you know, overperformance by seven in a place where both parties spent a ton of money and there was like midterm turnout.
It's like a pretty good indicator.
And then when you look at the Senate races that we need to win, so Harris loses Ohio by 5.7, Iowa by 6.7, Alaska 6.8, Texas 6.9.
So, like, it's right on the โ it's right there.
And if you get the kind of overperformance that you had in 25 in some of these โ
Senate races and you have good candidates in these races, then it is possible.
And also, like, Democrats need to make it possible.
Iowa, Ohio, Texas, you can't look at those three states and be like, well, all of them are really tough.
One of them has to be not tough.
And particularly Texas, if we're gonna win presidential races again in the electoral college, you know?