Mark Halperin

They're outraged by what he does on social media.

They're outraged about the destruction of the East Room, of the White House.

There's so many things they're outraged about.

And so the challenge has been, as the party has thought about, what's our message for 2026?

The challenge has been

How do they talk about the economy without failing to say the things that they feel in their heart and that they know a lot of the base cares about, which is all the things they're outraged about, about the conduct of the president of his administration.

So that's been an evolving debate within the Democratic Party.

And you see it publicly in the way Democratic leaders like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer talk about things.

They've of late tried to fuse the two of late.

You've heard them say, you know, this corruption is bad because it's keeping working people from getting tax breaks that are going to Trump's cronies.

That's been the message.

So this weekend on Saturday in Atlanta, John Ossoff gave a 30 minute speech that really set off my sources in both parties.

and caused me to do a lot of reporting about what's going on here with this guy.

He's a Senate candidate.

He's the incumbent Democratic Senator.

He's trying to win his second term.

John Ossoff was a longtime congressional staffer, ran for a House seat in Georgia and lost, and then ran for a Senate seat and won.

He's a liberal Democrat, young guy from Georgia who's running for reelection.

And he's favored to win reelection, even though it's a state that President Trump won.

It's more of a red state than a blue state for sure.