Hello there, happy Monday and welcome to another episode of the Chuck Toddcast today.

I hope you've enjoyed your first full double dose of football, week two of college football, week one of the NFL, football, football, football, I'm not footballed out.

I really never get footballed out unless I'm watching some version of the UFL. And even then I find

myself watching one quarter of that in March when I'm missing college and pro football.

You know, it's interesting. I also, my, my guest over the weekend for my newsfear show

is Chris Murphy, Democratic Senator, from Connecticut, somebody who wants to go harder at Donald

Trump. Pre-2025 was, I think if some people were watching him, they say he wants to move to the left.

He wants to be a bit more to the left of left of center, wherever the party is.

If you know, if you just put a number on it, right?

100 is sort of Joe Manchin on the scale of Democrats.

Zero is Bernie Sanders.

Chris Murphy wanted to be somewhere close to the 50-yard line, but closer to Bernie rather than closer to mansion. And I say this in that the Chris Murphy I encountered as a guy who clearly is interested in trying to improve the Democratic brand, would like to be a leader of the party, is looking to see if there's an appetite for him to run for president.

He did not sort of shy away from any of those questions.

But what was interesting was how he really said, look, the Democratic Party's got to figure out how to win voters that are much more conservative on cultural issues, that there is more of a common bond on economic

issues. And it's something you'll hear from Abdul-Sayed, that's Al-Sayed. That's an argument he's making.

It's an argument he made in his first candidate campaign for office in 2018. The same argument he's

making there that the economic pain is shared sort of on the ideological spectrum.

And that one way to sort of put Democrats

and independent voters and maybe even some some skeptical working class Republicans is to focus

on economic issues and also security issues. Don't shy away from the security issues. What do I mean by

the security issues, whether it's the border and getting a little tougher on immigration or it's

law and order in the cities. And it's all about whether how are you careful not to take the bait

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