Mark Halperin

Most of the stories are about –

Republicans are angry at Donald Trump because he's not staying on message.

Or they're about fundraising.

So-and-so raised a million dollars.

And that's part of campaigns.

But they don't write how the person raised a million dollars, right?

The campaign raised a million dollars because they knew how to use techniques that are part of campaigns.

We've got to raise money.

How are we going to do it?

The interesting thing to me when I do my reporting is not that they raised a million dollars and the other guy raised 20 bucks.

It's had the guy who raised a million dollars do it.

What were the techniques that they used?

The interesting thing to me is not so-and-so got 40% of the vote and so-and-so got 20% of the vote, but had they get 40% of the vote.

I'll say again, I think it's more interesting.

I think it's more important for history.

It's a better explanation of where elections are won and lost.

And it requires expertise and sophistication.

So here's why I bring this up in a reported monologue.

The last couple of weeks, I've been doing a lot of reporting on the midterms.

How are the Republicans seeing the midterms?