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In Democratic voters, I think it's a message that lands this cycle better than it ever would have landed in the past.

And my evidence for that is not only the races in Virginia where you had even the guy, you know, who was running for attorney general who would like threaten to murder his opponent or whatever, even he wins.

But you also have the redistricting that passes in the state.

This very hardball, listen, we're just going to erase these districts that Republicans were able to win in the past and very much a shift away from the previous Democratic Party era where they said, oh, let's have a redistricting commission.

Let's make it all fair.

Now it's no, we are going to play the same game.

We're going to go in and we're going to be hardball.

We're going to be hardcore partisan, just like the Republicans are.

And so that makes the landscape much more difficult for Susan Collins.

I mean, frankly, I don't think she really has a prayer.

I think this race is going to be impossible for her to win, given the national climate, given where the Democratic base is, and given what an effective candidate Graham Plattner truly has proven to be.

I don't know.

Did you guys see that the bulwark guys, Jonathan V. Last, JBL, was making the case that Graham Plattner may be our next president?

I mean, that's quite stunning because, first of all, he's not even ever been elected to anything.

He's still in this competitive Senate race.

Second of all, obviously, there's all the Reddit convo and the tattoo and all of that sort of stuff.

You know, 30 just be coming into office, et cetera.

But I think that's a testament to.

how compelling he is in his ideological positioning, how clear-throated he is in what he believes and his willingness to fight for it, what the Democratic base is looking for right now, and also, you know, frankly, a lack of a lot of other talent on the Democratic bench.

So, you know, I think the fact that you have the Bulwark guys who are former Republicans being like, yeah, maybe this—