elections in the last few weeks and we've seen democrats win the kentucky governor's race and the louisiana governor's race and do well in virginia. it doesn't seem like it's necessarily hurting democrats. although i don't know that it is helping them either. >> i was thinking about it this way. there was a lot of coverage in the run-up to the governor race that perhaps the republican candidates were seizing on the impeachment to motivate conservative voters and bring out the base and that didn't happen. it did not turbo charge the base like the cavanaugh issue did last year. and what the president did is he personalized the race so much. it is one thing to go in and rescue a struggling gubernatorial candidate and we saw that in kentucky and in louisiana. but he really made it about himself. do this for me. go out and vote for me. send a message to people