Ned Ryun

You know what I have found?

Again, I'm involved, pretty involved in politics, helping identify and then obviously consulting with and encouraging endorsements and working with candidates along the way.

I have noticed a very consistent pattern among people that lose.

They don't view their campaign as a full time job.

When you run for office, and this is, I will say this to anybody that's listening, that's thinking about running for office.

If you do not view the campaign as at least six days a week and at least 12 hours a day for those six days a week,

Don't even bother.

Don't even think about running for office.

This is a full-time job in which you are constantly either on the road speaking or you're constantly raising money.

And if you can't commit to that, please don't waste my time or anybody else's time because there was a lot of money wasted in Virginia when someone made it very clear she was not that interested in running a hard campaign.

went through three campaign managers, and at the end of the day, not only sank her own campaign, but everybody else, including pretty devastating losses in the House of Delegates.

So there were mistakes made, Vince.

There were also things a little bit outside of her control.

Just to add a little bit of fairness at the end, the government shutdown absolutely hurt Winston.

I thought she was going to lose by five to seven.

30 days, 35 days out, the bottom dropped out on her campaign.

And you can look at the government shutdown.

About 20% of the voters in Virginia were either directly impacted or had a family member directly impacted by the government shutdown.

20%, one out of every five.

Of that demographic, Abigail Spanberger won it 88 to 12.