weeks, particularly on stage. on that note, do you think team biden should be a little nervous? i think they should feel like they maintain the status quo last night. i don t think there were any game changing moments. looking ahead with elizabeth warren on this stage? they should be concerned? they should absolutely be concerned. but again, this idea of electability is built on the pundit class thought that joe biden is the only one that can win against president trump. voters have taken the role of pundits. my friends and neighbors are going to want to vote for someone like joe biden because he s steady, trusty, uncle joe. i think the voters are behaving like pundits. because of that, they have been convinced that joe biden is the electability candidate. voters can speak for themselves, i think they re more than that, right? they do, and that may very well be true. joe biden may be the best
candidate, that s what the biden case is, the biden case is basically, i am the obama legacy protector, i m the security blanket for mainstream democrats and i m the guy who can beat donald trump. on your point and you mention status quo. the title today, joe biden did fine and that s the end of the quote. biden settle d, he is still nostalgic and still the front-runner until someone can prove otherwise biden survived basically, is just surviving enough for the long road ahead. i have a lot of fondness for
unprecedented zeroes of series of elections of what is next for the political scene. but to read too much into this is difficult at this point. if people were expecting a seed change, they did get the status quo last night. that is to say, a continue ation, slight majority for the republicans, and as majority leader scott fitzgerald said, a continuation of the polices that were at the center of this controversy. bill: there was $30 million spent on this from both sides. you had money pouring in from every corner of america how is the political establishment gauging this outcome, matt? well, i think the republicans see this as a validation of some of the programs and the progress they ve made in wisconsin on the economic front, certainly. certainly, with some of the changes that had occurred through collective bargaining, the budget reform bill that took a