Liam Donovan

And of course, there have been changes to the margins with this mid-decade redistricting.

But what we found in 2022, 2024, and we'll see about 2026 is this is a really resilient map.

There's not as much, you know, a pool of competitive seats.

And so even on a really good night, I mean, 2022 is instructive.

Republicans won the popular House vote by a significant margin and yet only netted something like 10 seats.

That's right.

What a wonderful way to run a democracy.

And in the meantime, Democrats were able to otherize these candidates, make them weird.

I mean, right.

Like Blake Masters.

Well, but I guess but I say that because you're going to be watching this like this is precisely what's going to happen.

And whether successful is an open question.

We're already seeing this with Talrico.

Talrico and Paxton are going to try to otherize each other.

Something's a little off.

Grant Platner, look, that guy's weird.

That's going to be and whether it's effective, I think that's an open question.

Let's walk through the Senate elections sort of one by one here.

Yep.

The first one's pretty obvious.