manchin. >> cayden would know, he understands these races a lot. it's interesting to me, this is a poll from a few weeks ago that showed evan jenkins, a congressman from west virginia and patrick morrissy who is the current attorney general is sort of neck and neck within the margin of error, four points apart and joe manchin behind. this might be cynical of me to ask this question but all the china person stuff and all that, despite the fact that he was -- he owned the mine where those 29 men died. >> it's awful. >> i don't know that i'm not convinced -- i hate to say this, but this gambit doesn't bring him up in the polls. is that too cynical. >> i don't think that's cynical at all. i mean, we have donald trump, that tells you everything that you need to know. the reason why blank ship exists is because we have donald trump. donald trump has changed the political spectrum on who can run and not run and in the folks that we thought could not run is not running. the reason why you have a roy moore, the reason why you have a trump is because of trump's comments and policies and what he's turned the republican party