to point out here, this is a state that expanded access to the polls. they have 45 days of early voting in virginia. they never had that before. so this is an example -- you talk about voting access, this is an example of a state where democrats can't whine that somehow they have been denied their ability to vote by draconian voter suppression laws that were passed because they did just the opposite in virginia. so we'll see what the turnout ends up being. i predict it will be much better than it was in 2017. >> david, do you think there was any consideration to running a different kind of campaign? i hear what claire is saying about history. i worked in the bush white house has defied that lousy misterm history because it made the 2002 midterms about security, about homeland security after the deadly attacks of september 11th. was there an opportunity? might democrats look back and say we should have made this about homeland security after the last republican standard