you in a jen election. this is really important to understand sort of mathematically as a political scientist. the vast majority of special elections are in gerrymandered districts. it's generally not a situation where in a special election you can beat the incumbent party. democrats haven't won very many federal elections. they've been winning at the state level. when you can break down a margin from 10 to 16 points to single digits knowing there will be a rematch in two months, every single republican has to be concerned heading into the fall and donald trump can't visit all the districts he needs to visit in order to stave off a blue wave. >> it's interesting. we talk about the trump effect. the obvious trump effect is the fact we had a competitive race in the 12th congressional district a democrat hadn't won since 1980. in terms of the result, the president going in on saturday making noise in this one, how do you look at the results in a way the trump effect on this one? >> the way, trump is causing democratic enthusiasm.