Mark Halperin

Here's John Ossoff from his speech in Georgia on Saturday, S1.

Now, that's got resonance, of course, in Georgia, talking about the president as a Klansman, but throughout the Democratic Party, to paint that vivid picture of the president in the middle of the night, up late on social media, comparing him to a Klansman.

Again, table stakes.

You got to go hard at Trump.

But you also, and this is maybe the heart of why Democrats reacted so well to this, you got to fuse up, they say, talking about the economy

with what he calls the corruption of the Trump administration.

The notion that a president who's focused on enriching himself, enriching his family, enriching his special interests cronies is not gonna be working to make the lives of real people better in the United States.

Here's a couple of the examples from this speech.

And again, Democrats looked at this and said that this is the template.

S5, please.

All right.

The Epstein class is a phrase from the speech that so many Democrats and Republicans have cited to say that's very vivid, right?

It takes the energy and anger that exists across the political spectrum in many quarters about.

about Epstein, about this notion of a group of rich men and women protecting special interests, corruption behind the scenes at the expense of little people, playing by different rules.

Bill Clinton used to say he was working for the people who played hard, worked by the rules, and got the shaft from the wealthy.

And then this notion of special interests, powerful special interests, going straight at what has been Donald Trump's greatest strength

on the national stage now for more than a decade, converting the Republican Party into the working class party.

That's Ossoff's attempt to say, we're the working class party, MAGA does not stand for the working class.

Here's more along the same lines from John Ossoff, S7, please.

Ladies and gentlemen, that could be out of the mouths of Donald Trump in the main, because the long arc of the Democrats' disillusionment with the party as a working class party, the long arc of the rise of Bernie Sanders, the long arc of the rise of Donald Trump,