Mike Nellis

Yeah, it's a big topic and I could spend all day talking about it.

So I think the first thing is we lack quality candidates who want to run for office, who want to get shit done and who know what they stand for.

The number of candidates that I talk with, many of whom I don't go to work with, who cannot articulate why they are running outside of it's my turn or somebody told me I'd be a good candidate for something and don't have like a firm grasp of who they are.

It is like – it really drives me crazy.

And that's why like my people will have heard me talk about Mallory McMorrow a thousand times.

Like I –

love Mallory McMorrow because she has a clear compass of who she is and what she cares about and what she's fighting for to the point where I work for her.

I might give her advice and she would go, that's not me.

I don't say that.

And I have lots of candidates that like, I can just like, I have candidates who I write stuff for who just say it and don't care what I wrote.

You know, they just move on.

They're like, oh, that's a good tweet.

Get it up.

And then they don't add their like flavor to it.

So that is, I think the number one thing.

And I think

The second thing is the Democratic Party is super risk averse.

We're afraid of offending anybody.

We got to wait for a poll.

Like, you know, Sarah Lonwell was giving me shit on my show the other day because we were talking about how I was one of the Democratic consultants that was like begging Democrats to talk more about the Epstein files when they first tried to cover it up in the beginning.