two-thirds of the people wanted to see new faces. and, three, the other thing that i thought is, you know, the candidates still matter. we forget about the kpaenl cand sometimes. he was the best networker of the group. in new york, you ve got to network with interest groups in order to win. he did it better than anybody else. having said that, i think the democrats and republicans have the same problem. that is, both parties have gotten more to the extremes, and there s a whole voting in the middle of about 40% of the voters who feel like, hey, that s not me. stephanie, this seems to be both on one hand, democrats, if they run as biden democrats, that s a winning coalition. if the republicans successfully paint the democrats as the defund-the-police democrats, it s almost like the wokism versus trumpism, pick your poison here. does that make it a harder midterm? midterms are always difficult for the party who holds the