Of the podcast, democracy in color. Thanks, steve, for joining us. Thanks for having me on. And david daley, the upcoming book, unrigged. Thanks for joining us, david. Pleasure to be here. Hi, everybody. My names rebecca nagel, im a journalist and host of a podcast, this land, and im really, really excited to be digging into this conversation over next hour the next hour because i think it is more important now than ever. I think, you know, in this moment of a Global Pandemic, we are seeing the systemic failures of our government right now. You know, sort of all of the cracks in the system that were already existing are more apparent than ever, and i think a lot of us have our eyes on this upcoming election and if that election going to be a solution or make the problem worse. So, steve, ill direct the first question to you, you know, with a lot of democrats [audio difficulty] singular focus on beating donald trump in november, theres a lot of debate about whether or not those efforts