All right, thank you very much.

Hello, nerd casters. I'm Politico Scott Bland and this is the nerd cast coming to you live from Politicon the Conference for Political Junkies here in Los Angeles. I want to intro I've got two amazing political experts here with me.

We've got our national political correspondent reporting out of Chicago and

Natasha Karaki, big hand for Natasha. Hi everyone.

Natasha, thank you so much for being here.

And as always on the nerd cast,

we have Senior Politics Editor Charlie Matestian, give it up for Charlie.

Hey there?

So on today... and give it up for Charlie. Hey there?

So on today's show, we're going to be talking all about elections all the time.

We are sizing up the midterms that are now just two weeks away.

We're going to be talking 2020,

which probably to some of your dismay is already underway

for those of you who can only bear

at the deal with one election at a time.

But it's already happening.

It's already out there.

So we, you know, we're going to keep talking about it and we're going to take your questions here in Los Angeles. If any of you can stump Charlie on your congressional district, you'll be immortalized forever as our first live credits reader.

So let's get started with segment one.

Our first data point, 23.

And for those of you who have been closely following the battle for the House of Representatives,

you know what that number means already.

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