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Election, obviously as alex said, we're very early and there are several weeks before the actual election. but the fact that democrats are outraising democrats -- several republicans on the senate side and in some cases on the house side, have been too far out of the mainstream to be able to win over some of these independent voters and haven't been able to be the kind of strong candidates that you need to take advantage of a waive election and flip seats maybe on the outskirts of sort of what, you know, politicians typically see as, you know, stretched seats. and in this case it appears that ...

Really clean test, a clean test in a district democrats won outright. by the way, there's another special election in new york last night didn't get a lot of resource, didn't get a lot of money, it's a district kind of going away. changing in the fall. but they had a special election. trump won this by double digits, the republican won last night but again moving by five points in the democratic election. since the supreme court decision, all four of them, the needle has moved in the democrats' direction. and the democrats have won the swing district outright. i think it's dramatic, if you com...

A congressional seat that joe biden carried by only two percentage points in 2020, so it is a very marginal seat. it could go either way, and if you see one party or another carry it tonight, that could be an indication either that republicans are building towards a wave election where they take back control of congress in november, or a sign for democrats that — some of the inroads they have made recently — passing major legislation in congress, inflation going down somewhat, the economy looking a little better and of course abortion becoming a front and centre issue. all of that is helpi...

And i can't overemphasize this, is this the issue landscape, for the last couple of months, we've talked about the economy and inflation and inflation, inflation, now threats against democracy is the top issue and that is a very different issue dynamic than benefits democrats and actually hurts republicans. so there is a lot of little things here that said this is not going to be a republican wave election. but, chris, three months is a long way to go. >> okay. well, i was stunned, sahil, to see that number, and that it wasn't the economy, that it was inflation and it was about democracy. but ...

Now example after example of things that have begun to get more and more people interested and excited in voting. it's these interviews that you talk about. it's candidates that regularly deny democracy or deny that elections have been run fairly. all of it just continuing to add up, and you know, now we're just 11 weeks away, democrats are in a really strong position in the senate, and i would mention, too, lastly, those enthusiasm numbers seem to walk us away from this idea that there's going to be a wave election. generally, when you see enthusiasm gaps that are that close, you don't have w...