JVL (Jonathan V. Last)

Now you could maybe say.

I think people get a little blinded by their their dislike of Schumer and their sense that like, oh, he's bad on X, Y, Z, or he he's terrible in messaging or he's not the fighter we need.

And and all those things may be true.

Right.

And it may be true that he has to go anyway.

But also, like, I'm sorry, just look at the scoreboard, right?

Yeah.

The second thing is, I think we also haven't fully readjusted our understanding of the world from what it was six months ago.

Because, you know, November 2025, I think these candidate numbers look very different six months ago when Trump is at like 44% approval.

And that has changed.

And a lot of things become possible when you have a shift as profound as we've had.

And in a shift like that, maybe vanilla candidates perform better.

Right.

Because I'm just thinking this.

I'm not saying that this is I'm just trying to think it through.

Right.

Yeah, sure.

When the incumbent is that bad and people hate the incumbent that much.

then the vanilla candidate sort of has a whole bunch of advantages baked in because the vanilla candidate doesn't have to motivate your base, right?

I mean, the base is motivated by how much they hate the guy who's screwing everything up.