given the fact races are in north dakota, virginia, indiana, missouri, montana, red states, the democrats really injured themselves tremendously by what they've done on the kavanaugh but most importantly, as a party chairman where people should understand out there that midterm elections are generally about not turning out. just people that are watching this right now and either really identify democrats or identify republicans. this is about identifying voters and turning them out. in order to do that, and that sounds like boring stuff, but in order to do that, identifying voters and turning them out, you need the machinery to do that. >> laura: do they have that in place? >> they do. but what you need, laura, you need a voter energy energized. now kavanaugh has energized republicans. the democrats were already at a