living in today. didn't have much money. in the second quarter, joe biden's cash on hand went to 238 million. donald trump continued to raise money and have more cash on hand but the gap on cash in hand back in the spring many democrats were looking at as a pretty insurmountable mountain of 182 million at the end of the first quarter closed to a $57 million gap in this quarter. so it is looking like a lot of energy on the democratic side, on the money side, as well as when they talk to their favorite pollster. >> i was going to say, the money look like it's matching some of the polling there. steve, thanks for that. gene robinson, we've seen a lot of data in this segment, polls looking good for joe biden, months worth of polls looking good for joe biden, we've seen fund-raising looking good for joe biden. let me flip the question joe