Owen

But I think I agree with what Marcella said.

I think they're more just based on their ideological lens on things, but they're also more based on just how they feel or how they think people feel.

And they're often very out of line with

vast majority of the country um because they have this knee-jerk reaction where whatever trump does they have to oppose it no matter how unpopular taking that view is um so when more than half the country thinks all the immigrants should go home or when it's even more skewed where maybe 80 of the people think we should have voter id or 70 or whatever it's up there um you know they do they just don't care they just they just want to have that oppositional

position.

And I think it is because they're not really able to think with reason and say what would make the most sense.

So I think it's overall a good thing for the Republicans that things are that way, because I think they would be a much tougher opponent if they were

shifting more towards the center and if they were trying to have a positive message and if they had a good vision for the future instead of just being I'm against whatever that Trump guy said.

But at the same time I am worried about the midterms just because it seems like the way the maps are set up and you know the way that all the

gerrymandering has gone through.

It seems like it puts Democrats in a position where they still probably have a very high probability of taking control of the House and maybe even the Senate.

So I think that's where our focus should be, is to say, how can we appeal to that

independent voter or that person that might have been thinking or leaning towards voting for a democrat and how do we convince them to vote for the republican um and and that may mean shifting a little further to the center again like not being so fringe right on things um i don't really see a lot of center would be good you know i don't see a lot of the republican politicians

that are running in Congress being that really far hard right, but I do think you want to talk about the good things, talk about the positive future, talk about all the great economic things because that to me is probably still going to be the dominant factor.

What does the stock market look like?

What does the job picture look like?

What does the housing market look like?

How affordable are things?

What is the price of gas at the pump?

Those are going to be the things that I think will determine the outcome of the midterms.