ahead of the election even happening. >> yeah. there is also an aspect to it that -- that i find fascinating just from a straight-political standpoint, which is you know, we don't know -- first of all, let's be clear, we don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. we have had huge polling misses in the past, right? but to the extent the polling is accurate, right, this has not been a successful effort or looks like it -- it hasn't been successful. and normally, the story now would be, well, what did we do wrong with the messaging? we should have done this and that. but if -- if you are already saying this -- the -- the story that the election was fraudulent, then you never have to deal with the normal stuff that people do. consultants, politicians, all those folks around an election that doesn't work out. >> it feels like they know that this is slipping away because don't get me wrong. there are very serious issues to talk about. many issues you and i have talked about before in california. you have the greatest economic inequality in the nation. covid hit this state particularly hard. wildfires driven by climate change are raging here. and before democrats started to