Mike Pesca

He didn't bother going against them.

I guess he needed their money, and he did well with them.

The election results was the word is overdetermined.

Do you know what I mean by that?

Yeah.

Many different reasons.

It's a horrible college educated white term for many different reasons.

And if you took out one of them, you probably still would have won.

But I would say in order, number one, inflation, it's killed every incumbent party the world over.

And no matter who the Democrats were running in this term, they probably would have lost.

But

But who the Democrats were running was number two.

And I don't think Kamala Harris was some sort of awful candidate.

No, I don't think so at all.

She only had 106 days.

She wasn't running with her own people.

And if there was a regular primary and if she was awful, and that did happen once.

I mean, I don't want to call her awful, but she was unappealing.

She wouldn't have been the candidate.

So there is a logic to having a primary and testing people and making sure they get their bad answers out of the way then.