Hey, pull up a chair.

It's axon tap with David Axelroth, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.

Could Biden break the historical pattern of the, you know, midterm's going badly?

But we could hold both of these houses, but we have to say the right things.

And we have to note, the Republicans always close well.

Why?

Because they find some new way to scare the living daylights out of swing voters about

something.

That's what they did in 2021, where they made critical race theory sound worse than small

pox.

And it wasn't being taught in any public schools in America, but they didn't care.

They just scare people.

So there you go.

There's a familiar voice from the past there, Mike Murphy, a shrewd political strategist

who recognizes that the hours do close well.

Although that's scared voter stuff, I still remember as you probably do being Jurassic like

me, those old Democratic ads with the scissors cutting the Social Security card and half.

So we're table that, that part of President Clinton's analysis, but I think he's essentially

right.

We shouldn't table it because I think that there's some strength to it.

There's nobody better to mull over the midterms and the politics of this moment than Moe

Elythi, the distinguished director of the Institute of Politics at Georgetown University

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