the end, gin up enthusiasm. the idea if this had gone the other way, it probably won't, if this didn't look the way it did now, it would have been mass. >> the psychology of actually losing versus. >> the other way to look at it is like the first act of "the walking dead" and the zombies come and don't get in then but then in three months, the zombies get into your cave. it may just be staving off the inevitable. >> i'm just former republican congressman, you ran. having to deal with donald trump a little bit. if you were running right now as a republican just trying to survive, in terms of -- what's the strategy you try to employ? >> you can't survive a 50-50 district. one of the take-aways from balderson's race is interesting. he was not fully in with donald trump. he occasionally said the right things.