Michael LaRosa

So I have no doubt that the polls and the prediction markets will have Platner and the energy and money will be around him for the next couple of months.

But the Collins people are smart.

They've done this before and they've been underestimated before.

And on election day, they had their race 43-42.

and the rest of the country and the rest of the democratic party did not.

So they know how to do this up there and she can afford to be outspent three to one and still win by 10 points apparently.

It's very much a live issue.

And it's very much a live issue.

I'm actually surprised that Republicans are, and maybe they will, maybe as we start moving into more TV ad season when all these primaries are set and done, that is the biggest vulnerability in my view for Democrats because they don't, there is no, you will hear lockstep talking points and unity on messaging around the economy.

You will, you will,

You have no idea what you're going to get when you ask a Democrat officeholder candidate about trans issues.

It is the most vulnerable issue because they just don't know how to answer it.

And it's shocking to me.

I mean, I'm a former NCAA swimmer.

There's no way in hell I can tell you that...

Democrat or that, uh, biological men should be competing in women's sports.

I, I can, I can just say that.

And 90% of, and the vast majority, and I think the vast, the silent majority of Democrats, probably democratic voters feel that way.

But these, my, my democratic, um,

You know, Democrats who I admire a lot for their abilities and their talents in Congress just tie themselves in knots trying to find a way to answer that question.