half the time he campaigned by carrying a rifle and complaining about nancy pelosi. you know, that gave him a little traction there. what republicans should do is learn from that. we need to give the same kind of long leash to some of our candidates who want to walk away from the president a little bit and walk away from some of the litmus test primary issues like guns and the suburban districts where republicans support is collapsing. i would say my advice to the republicans would be copy that. because we are heading forehead winds and it s an effective tactic as we learned in one of our base districts. and a democratic strategist would say the same thing that you are saying, other democrats around the country should copy that as well and get rid of some of the litmus test candidates. i want to ask you about this michael i ll start with you first. the possible youth wave in november. what impact do you think that s going to have on top of this? look how organized the young people we
exacts will get that play book and try and field the right kind of candidates in the right districts. and you know, he he certainly wasn t running to trump. but he was running as somebody representing a district in the middle of pennsylvania. mike, i know that is true that he he sent the right cultural signals, lamb did. half the time he campaigned by carrying a rifle and complaining about nancy pelosi. you know, that gave him a little traction there. what republicans should do is learn from that. we need to give the same kind of long leash to some of our candidates who want to walk away from the president a little bit and walk away from some of the litmus test primary issues like guns and the suburban districts where republicans support is collapsing. i would say my advice to the republicans would be copy that. because we are heading forehead winds and it s an effective tactic as we learned in one of our base districts. and a democratic strategist would say the same thing
it s fair to argue it that it would have done better. do you know candidates out there really progressive doing well in those tough districts? tough districts that are not clearly democrat districts? anybody pushing the envelope and winning that way? those arguments are doing real, real well in democratic primaries, and in sort of democratic base districts, but, you know, the polling just doesn t justify that course of action among independents. that s just not where independents are right now, and, you know, they re very, very skeptical about the role of government. they ve turned real sour. i mean, even independents that were sort of opened to it at the beginning of the process no longer open to huge reform. so i don t think that s i mean, i understand why these folks fervently believe it, but i don t think a lot of them are sitting in swing districts and looking at the polling data attend talking to the independent voters that are these are not happy campers. they take a very