you re making in terms of the blanket statement, well, they lost. but at the end of the day, we had this conversation during the special elections. and i ve been listening to everybody tonight and their thoughts about defining victory. i m more simple than that, axe. you ve got to win at some point. and the problem in the special elections is that the democrats were competing in places better than they had in the past, but they didn t win. and we did see them win in a lot of house areas in this midterm election. not the special election period, there they kept losing. but in these midterms, they won in places. and i wonder if what we re seeing is, you still lost in texas, you still lost in georgia and in florida, maybe twice in both of the races. but you re gaining ground. and if trump keeps banging away on fear and loathing and he keeps distancing himself, not just from the others in his party, but from the orthodoxy of it, is that what democrats are betting on for 2020? well, i t