it back to you here with the same question on republicans and what this means for them moving forward. >> you know, obviously you want to be able to have candidates who can kind of straddle those trump lines, appeal to people in the suburbs. but, hallie, more importantly, to be able to take advantage of a positive issue environment for you. and, you know, to me again, it really stands out, you end up looking at joe biden, president biden's stature right now where he's at 42% approval in the nbc poll that came out over the weekend. the exit poll in virginia showed him at 45%, which is pretty consistent, a 42% national approval would take you. that is a very positive political environment for the gop. now, sometimes you can have a positive political environment when you're republican and you can crash and burn. you can have the wrong candidate. you can actually have the wrong messages. what i think we've seen in both situations in virginia and in