ideally i think the economy is what most republicans want to talk about at the ballot boxes this next year i would say. >> and michael, when i think about this abortion issue, i think about the power of the female vote and whether this issue, you know, with the states by state by state who are now passing these restrictive abortion laws, if it could backfire. >> look, i totally agree with jay. this is sort of baffling for two reasons. one, the abortion issue, if anything, is driven by the people who are passionate about something happening. and if these laws give a sense to people that actually roe v. wade is actually threatened in a way that it hasn't really been threatened for four or five decades, that would seem to give the democrats a more energy that they haven't had in the past. and i think also to jay's point about the economy, women voters in particular were the ones who republican candidates in the 2018 midterms really felt like