party, but look, i will stand with our candidates from here to eternity. you can't stand with some of the people in your own party, and you know it. >> the elephant in the room is joe biden's lack of popularity here. you know, these candidates you may say they're bad, whatever, it's hard to overcome a president with popularity in the low 40s. that's it, you're pushing the ball up the hill the entire time. you may have great candidates, but -- >> there is going to be a debate within the democratic party if wisconsin goes down, if pennsylvania goes down, about whether a more center left candidate could have done better than the candidates who were promoted by the wing of the party. >> this point you made, you could analyze these races a lot of different ways, and it's all sort of gut feel on candidate quality but the fundamentals of elections really don't change. if the president's in the low 40s. if the right track wrong track is 30/70. if 2/3 of the country thinks we're in a recession, if inflation is waging, the gravity