theory point, look, critical race theory is a lee atwater it's trafficking in that undercurrent or using racism as a political currency to boost your turnout amongst a certain group. when you don't know how to talk about race, democrats, then republicans will fill that void. and what happened yesterday in virginia was that we didn't give particularly black voters a reason to come out in numbers that would have pushed or been able to offset the numbers -- >> but also independents, as well. you didn't give independents a reason to come out, as well. >> that's the larger point and so when i say that democrats have to do something, it's the same thing that was echoed today by tim kaine. it the same thing echoed today by james clyburn and the same thing that kind of sort of was echoed by joe manchin. still today we had a vote where we actually weren't able to pass voting rights reform and the