Sarah Longwell

Pete Buttigieg has some of that nice young man energy, which I think works with a lot of the moms.

I think there's always a soccer mom or a security mom or whatever.

Let's just have the nice young man moms.

They could be coming out for Democrats this time.

But the thing about Ossoff is that he is a natural contrast storyteller.

He is saying, and a lot of people get, they worry, well, look, if I start talking about corruption, people are going to get bored or they don't understand the ins and outs.

He trusts people to understand where he's going with it.

And he says, have you heard?

Did you know?

I'm here to give you this information if you haven't been getting it in your bubbles.

Yeah.

And so I am finding him from an optics cadence and message discipline standpoint to be doing the thing that I've been feeling pretty desperate for politicians to do, which is find a way to rhetorically get your arms around the chaos.

And people get distracted.

It feels like it's so much.

And the voters feel like it's too much.

But he's like, no, I'm going to focus your attention on these things.

And they provide that.

The contrast, not just him versus Trump, but the way in which he's approaching issues versus the corruption of Trump and corruption.

Trump's getting richer.

You're getting poorer.