Discussion on Democratic strategies and voter engagement for 2028 (Part 3)

Message wise, strategically, to lock in some of these gains or at least give our 2028 nominee the opportunity to build on them. Do you guys have thoughts on things the party could be doing? The most important thing is helping Texas succeed, because if we can take Texas off the table in 2028, it's ball game. So it's a good point. You're not wrong. Are you going to argue adhesive? Oh, no, I had, I honestly had thought of it. I was like, yeah, it's a good point. Yeah, that's a lot of electoral votes, so I think that's really important. But we also have to remember that presidential years are different than midterms. I think a lot of our nominees in 2020 or a lot of our candidates tried to overlearn the lessons of 28 and outdo each other, and they just, they weren't authentic to who they were. And if we're going to win in 28, we also need candidates to figure out who they are and what they're running on and then have other examples of what they've done. And we just can't roll over now that we've got this. Like, it's not. They didn't, they didn't all vote for Democrats. They voted against Republicans in a lot of these races. So for 28, we need them to want to vote for us. And that is going to be the big, you know, thing we got to get done. You said this backstage. I don't want to steal too much of the, of the, of your thunder, but did I say something smart? You said something. Another thing. Smart. Okay, but the messengers that we have coming in to the House, right, are diverse in talent and ability, in demography in every way on both sides here in Washington, in the governor's offices, et cetera. Now, obviously, the party is going to be defined by who our nominee ultimately is. That's how it always has been. But for the next year in particular and the next two years in general, we have people not only who are talented and able to communicate our message, but like, like you were saying, Sarah, are uniquely facile in this media environment, the new media environment, Right. So whether it's an Abdul or a Talarico or that old guy whose name I'm forgetting, Chuck, in western North Carolina, who somehow won a House race, who is, like, apparently great at TikTok, if you haven't seen him, like, I got lost in his TikTok feed one night and like that, I didn't go to bed till five. It's. It's incredibly endearing. But we have all these people who are really, really good at communicating a message we have to our leaders here in D.C. our leaders at the state parties, etc. Even while we get lost in the, in the presidential primary, have to put those people forward. And the way that D.C. communicates.