show tonight. because as keith said, a real live republican candidate for office is going to be a guest on this show. this is something that used to happen for us, not too rarely. then it got rare. recently it has been utterly impossible for us to get anyone from any newsworthiness from the republican side to sit and chat on this show. tonight on the interview, we break our recent republican-free streak. we are excited. please stay tuned for that. we begin with this question. how long does it take for belt way media narratives to get rewritten? because we're 26 days from the elections. and the big belt way narrative about how democrats need to run this year seems wrong. with each passing day, we are getting new examples of democrats rejecting the belt way common wisdom that democrats need to play defense only. it's a republican landscape this year. republicans get to run on what they stand for. and democrats ought to stay