Ken Martin

And so you're damned if you do, damned if you don't.

If you throw all your eggs into one basket, which is one campaign or one campaign cycle, then you've built nothing permanent.

Or if you do as I am, right, which is to start building the permanent infrastructure we need to have a long-term strategy, then you get blamed because you don't have enough cash on hand to compete with the Republicans.

Well, the reality is we've been competing with the Republicans and building the long-term infrastructure at the same time.

And so what I would ask you to do is just think about this differently.

The old conventional wisdom of how we do campaigns, I came in here, and as I said, I'm challenging that conventional wisdom.

I'm challenging the idea that we just invest in the final three months at the expense of a long-term strategy.

I'm challenging the conventional wisdom that we just focus on federal power at the expense of state and local power, right?

I am challenging the conventional wisdom that we just focus on seven battleground states at the expense of the rest of this country.

So I get that that frustrates people, John.

But guess what?

It will pay dividends.

It already is, both in the short term and it will pay dividends in the long term as this map shifts underneath of our feet in the next four to six years.

So I say all this.

I get where your frustration comes from, right?

But as I said, you know, and I get it.

You know, there are people, including you and others, who are in a different place on this chairs race.

But since I've come here, I have won.

And you can't ignore that fact.

We have won.