And now for a moment of clarity.

You know, unfortunately, I deflated the balloon last night at our victory party here at the DNC.

I said, look, guess what, folks?

Celebrate tonight because tomorrow is the first day of the next election.

And that's true.

We're not taking any time off.

We've already been at it, hard at work,

ready for November of next year and November of 2028. They didn't appreciate it when I told them

that I, the chairman back in 2009. They were like, but can we at least get some coffee? I'm like,

no, no coffee, because I need you fresh and not jittery. And on that point about the jitters, because there are jitters out there.

You look at the extent of the wind, sir, between Virginia, from Virginia to New York.

And you already have a number of Republicans last night laying down the mantle that the election of Mr. Mondami in New York

is a sign that the Democrats are now a communist party.

And it sort of, you know, starts that whole rhetoric.

He is the face of the Democratic Party.

My take was, and I'm curious how you see it, sir, that what it showed me,

if I'm a Republican, that I need to be concerned about, especially if I'm running the R&C and just

got my behind handed to me the way it was handed, that from New Jersey, from Virginia, a very

conservative blue state, all right,

to New York City, a very progressive city, that you had this, this array of voices that probably

a little bit more reflective of everyday work-a-day Americans than Republicans claim themselves to be.

And so when you have the President of the United States having gilded parties in Mar-a-Lago

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