Michael Steele

My prediction, Katty, is that if and when this war ends sometime this year, we will be where Barack Obama led us.

That agreement will be the foundation for what comes next.

Why?

Because it is the thing Iran has already agreed to.

And it is the thing Iran is the most familiar with.

And it is the thing where Iran felt that not only could it live with it, but its sovereignty, which is important for any nation, stays relatively intact.

That's the pressure point.

It already has.

Not just the polls, the results of elections.

I mean, Democrats have won, what, 35, 36 of the 37 special elections that have occurred so far?

It's huge.

It's huge.

Look, when I was national chairman in 2009 and 2010...

That was something I paid attention to is how are we doing in the races that no one is paying attention to right now that no one's calculating?

Because for me, as someone who's a party official, I know how those how those stones are laid out to create a pathway towards electoral success down the road.

And so they're telltale signs.

And I said back in January, February of this year that the voters are going to reach a point, a tipping point where they begin to bake in the election, how they feel about Trump, how they feel about the economy, how they feel about a lot of things.

The war hadn't even happened at that point.

And when they do, there's no going back.

You can't get them off of the idea.