Just to give our viewers an even clearer understanding of where you are at, can you briefly explain to us what your view is of the, quote, insurgent left, which I'm assuming you're not a fan of?

I'm not a huge fan of them, but I was trying to actually draw a distinction, which is that a lot of the people who lost in primaries, particularly in the House, are themselves quite progressive and were members of what I would sort of term a progressive establishment.

which is a very large, very influential block in the Democratic Party.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus is sort of their home in the House of Representatives.

There's a lot of interest group and advocacy organization infrastructure that supports those people.

And they are distinct from the insurgent left, which is mostly people who supported Bernie Sanders in 2016, people who have then followed in his footsteps.

He's done a lot of work to lift up his own former allies, et cetera.

as I think a lot of

Hmm

... chosen to listen to Huang, to, um, to Mark Zuckerberg, um, to David Sachs, who's an investor, uh, who have been pushing him to not do this.

In a narrow sense, you know, he- his approval rating on the economy is quite low right now.

Uh, but the stock market is doing very, very well.

That is a clear bright spot that I would point to if I was on his communications team.

And there is probably some concern about doing anything that would jeopardize this kind of bright spot on the economic record.

The counter case that I would make to him is that AI is, um, incredibly unpopular.

Yeah

Is that really the case?

I don't think that it is.

I mean, I think that that was a stupid statement from Governor Newsom and then to an extent a misinterpretation in some of the Canadian media about his actual stature.

If you look at what the Democrats on Foreign Affairs and Ways and Means committees have said about this, it's quite different.

I would not say that this is a, you know, the leading issue in Canada.

the midterms generally, but it is a quite big deal in Michigan, where there's a very important Senate race and a number of contested House races, where the Democrats have all come strongly out against this.

In Maine as well, the incumbent Republican is trying to distance herself from Trump and is getting hit with it a lot.

Is it really down to the gag? I