Mara Liasson

And she knows the power of that.

She's tested the message in a state that used to be a swing state in Virginia, now leans a little bit more blue, but certainly has that kind of more moderate sounding message.

And there's a lot of Democrats who are going to be sitting there saying, you know, maybe in those swing districts sound a little bit more like Abigail Spanberger than

than an Al Green.

But, you know, we're going to see how people wind up positioning their campaigns.

As Trump has said himself, though, midterm elections are not kind to the party in power.

He said that it's both Democrats and Republicans it affects.

And it really is a bit of pushing a boulder up the hill, especially when people have a negative view of the direction of the country.

I'm Odette Youssef.

I cover domestic extremism.

And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.

Well, Odette, when they say one heritage, what heritage are they referring to?

Yeah, you know, Ward is talking about something that has a lot of political layers.

It started in the first term.

Trump famously said there were good people on both sides when he was talking about the neo-Nazi march in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

You

And then in the second term, it becomes official U.S.

policy, cultural erasure, you know, talking about Western civilization under siege.

It's foreign policy and domestic policy.

It's what people like J.D.