Discussion on Democratic candidates' accessibility and appeal

She did so few events where if you just as a member of the public, as opposed to somebody who was like, recruited to be there, where you could go see her. I mean, it was like, it was bizarre. I don't know that I've ever seen anything like it. She just kind of was not accessible, you know. And then meanwhile, Abdul El Sayed is going everywhere. Mallory McMurrogh is going everywhere. I mean, I think Mallory McMurrow suffered from being the sort of Goldilocks candidate. Yeah, she was sort of in between the two of them. The smart thing for the establishment would have been to Coalesce behind Malorie McMurrow. And then, you know, kind of once she dropped out of the race, I mean, I think it was always ugly, but it became especially ugly once it became a binary campaign. But this is. I want to say that I think Schumer ended up doing a good job on a lot of measures here. Right. They just, you know, they put money to Mississippi late in the game when people thought that might be a completely crazy move. I mean, he took some risks. He got Roy Cooper. They really did have a bunch of recruiting wins. And even in Maine, where, like, Janet Mills suspended her campaign in the primary, what happened on the other side of it didn't make, like, the other side of that look great. Right. Grant Platner ended being a bit of a disaster, too. The thing that I thought was interesting here and reflected to me a way in which a Democratic establishment needs to update its sense of what makes a candidate electable is it does not care about and does not select for star power. It does not care about and does not select for charisma. It does not care about and does not select for people creating authentic movement around them. Right. People being genuinely excited. But El Sayed was exciting the hell out of people. Yeah, absolutely. And the fear that he was both a kind of mobilizing and counter mobilizing candidate, he mobilized his people and mobilized people against him, which is, I think, why the Republicans thought they might win. But there was, I thought, a sort of, for a long time, like a. Like an. An unwillingness to grapple with what it meant that, you know, so many Democrats in Michigan were so excited about. El Said. I mean, there's been a lot of attention to the Democrats who wouldn't vote for him, Haley Stevens being one of them. I think we would have seen something similar and maybe even larger on the other side, you know, voters who wouldn't have voted for Haley Stevens because of her passionate commitment to Israel. But there are some lessons that are hard to draw just because the tide was so high that it kind of carried so many people along. Like El Sayed. On the one hand, El Sayed, when he was being really.