about having these pre-mature conversations before we get through november. the leadership elections will happen after the primary election. therefore it s most important for them to focus on being united going into the mid-term elections because these will be the most consequential mid-term elections of our lifetime. losers don t legislate. if we do not win in november all this noise about what leadership looks like and doesn t look like will mean nothing in the end. molly: christopher, a common strategy we see in elections frequently. you take the local candidate and tie them to the national party whether it s president trump or nancy pelosi. now as we watch some of these races, we ve seen a lot of the candidates have tied themselves to president trump intentionally and it has worked out for them successfully on the republican side. do you think that is the strategy that is working for the gop? oh, it absolutely is the strategy that s working for the gop. being sure that they are