So that's- so, so talk more about Berman and, like, the difference between what the national headwinds are versus him as a candidate and what stands out to you.

So Berman is a genuine outsider.

He's a nur- an emergency room nurse.

He, uh, grew up in the first.

His ads have been very effective, and as he's been able to increase his fundraising and communicate with folks, I think people are seeing, like, "Oh, this is not a politician.

This is not a typical Democrat that I'm used to seeing." And that is helpful in an environment where people are really mad at Washington, DC.

That district has always been drawn more competitive than a lot of the other districts, but Steil has outperformed the baseline Republican average.

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

So, um, cautiously optimistic.

The signal I'm seeing, where Republicans are pulling down ads out of North Carolina entirely and then moving money to Kansas, tells me they're playing defense.

The body language is just not great.

Some of the ads you're seeing from Republican Senate candidates, like Mike Rogers in Michigan, is totally different than the way he's governed for the last five and a half years in the Senate.

So I'm feeling cautiously optimistic, but the, the left should not take anything for granted, and run through the tape.

So as of this morning, uh, the Cook Political Report has moved five more seats to tilt Democrat, but it's interesting because, uh, we've...

election-... two years from now?

Okay.

Yeah.

I, I don't really have anything to add.

49-46 is better than being the other way around.

The money spends.

When you have three billionaires willing to write $22 million worth of campaign checks over the span of 60 days, that's gonna make a difference.

There's also a way of looking at this, which is Tom Tiffany and the Republican Party have, like, three or four X'd Crowley and the Democratic Party this year in fundraising, and this is what they have to show for it.

Yep

We wanted to talk to you about, obviously, you guys had a big election this week, and maybe you could just fill us in on how you saw it playing out, because there was a lot of things going on in that campaign, in that election.

Yeah, I mean, I'll start at the end, which is I don't think it's hyperbole to believe that 50 years from now.

there will be a campaign, I don't know, maybe on Mars, sitting around, down 20 points in the polls, heading into GOTV weekend, and some old head will gather the young people around and say, we're not out of it yet, team.

Let me tell you about the Crowley comeback.

We've been doing this long enough to know that every poll is a snapshot in time, right? Every pollster tells you that every time you see numbers.

But the consensus was that when multiple pollsters, multiple methodologies all within the last week are finding a race that has Fran Hong up 20 points, that there's just not enough time and not enough resources to make up the ground.

I think you have to tip your cap to the Crowley campaign for settling on a strategy.

So can I just ask you, have you seen any 2028 possibles coming through there? What kind of action did you guys get in this primary or anything else right now? Less than I

It was because these motherfuckers decided that tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans were more important than your health care.

I want to give one example of what that looks like.

A trillion dollars is such a big number, you can't get your head around it.

So let's just take one of the guys that Brad just named, Mr. Jeff Bezos of Amazon.

In 2025, Amazon paid $1.2 billion in federal taxes.

The year before that, in 2024, before the big ugly bill went through, they paid $9 billion in federal taxes.

That's an 87% giveaway.

but it is so much bigger than that because everybody is hurting and we'll get into the numbers with regards to people in nursing homes and pregnant moms and who and kids the people who medicaid is covering but joe i want to go to you because you get wisconsin politics you know wisconsin like nobody else what does this actually mean for the average wisconsinite how is this affecting people in our communities around the states around the states