murphy by phone. and we're happy to be able to talk to him. the veteran republican strategist, long-type advisor to mitt romney, jeb bush, john mccain to name a few and former u.s. member of congress, david jolly remains here with us in studio. so mike, good to have you. thank you for making yourself available so late at night. what are we witnessing happen to the republican party do you think? >> well, our pea is narrowing because our president is quite unpopular. i was looking at the numbers in ohio and while the republicans have a good argument for the small part of it, we won the seat, if you look at the seat itself, it's so deep in our backfield it's very troubling that we're going to have probably a narrow narrow win there. i looked at the suburban counties which are a good bellwether, particularly delaware county. president trump ran about 16 points ahead there when he ran