prospects, the president suggesting china and trade right now. but rick, why do you think the president is addressing this in the first place? i agree, it s a big distraction, but it s so disturbing from the historical context. the may day celebration in russia was a victory over the nazi germany. it was first celebrated in june of 1945. it then became used as a nationalistic propaganda tool because what happened it wasn t victory for all the countries that got consumed in to creating the soviet union and then were literally oppressed and killed for 50 years, and it kind of fell away after the fall of the soviet union and the berlin wall, but putin brought it back because it s a propaganda tool. i don t think the president will go because every democratic ad-maker would love a picture of president trump reviewing the
they acknowledge that that is a weakness for him, so i think right now he is trying to do as much as he can on the fund-raising front. and the way of raising money has really changed, right? we saw that with bernie sanders. he got that big number because he has you know, he has far fewer far smaller average, i think $27 when he was running in 2016. they used to shout 27, 27, 27. having said that, eli, when you put all these things together, as you said, he s got the ad maker out there, he s talking to an extensive network of people. nobody in this race has the network of people that joe biden has accumulated over the last many decades. and you put that up against and his personality, but put it up against beto o rourke who maybe is not as far along organizationally, how do you look at those different things?