them as democrats will be forced to. >> and you're a republican saying that. >> we have all the issues that are facing us right now not just in virginia but still the unanswered issue as to to deal with african-american men and women being killed by police around the country. these are important issues that have to be dealt with and the candidates who want to be the nominee are going to have to deal with them. >> alex, is the not true that if the democratic party, who eventually becomes the democratic nominee does deal with this issues along with other critical issues, the economy and certainly health care and other issues, that it will energize the vote and that it is going to be difficult to get people to come out and vote? i always say if you're not talking to people, they're not going to respond. isn't it really in the interest of the democrats to talk to the base voters that they've depended on, not just talk to