And welcome to this edition of The Mighty. This has been Myceles joined by Brett and

Jordi Myceles. We will be breaking down on this episode. What is the early voting

data looking like? What is the real landscape heading into these midterms?

There's no one better to talk to us about that than Simon Rosenberg, president of the

NDN long time Democratic strategist. This is his 17th election cycle and he worked as a

strategist for the D-Triple C in 2018 crafting a very successful campaign. There, Simon,

welcome to the Midas Touch podcast. It's great to be here and just thanks for all that

you guys do. It's pretty amazing to watch from the outside. Well, we're happy to have you

here and we've been watching you from the outside because one of the things we're focused

here is the data. And you are like us obsessed with the data. What is the data reflecting

an early voting turnout? And so I want to explore what that data is. But the first thing that

I want to talk about too, because we had been discussing this amongst the brothers.

We were saying, we were all of these polls that I almost never heard of like coming from

out of nowhere, showing all these Republican leads and kind of out of nowhere. I just saw

this flood of it. And you had analyzed that and others had analyzed it to Tom Boney

A and some others. No one said there may be something going on here and actually there

is something going on here. Can you explain that? Yeah. And this is, you know, it's sort

of a tragedy in some ways. And it's a reflection of just the how illiberal and anti-democratic

the Republican party has become, which is that there's clearly a purposeful campaign

to try to gain the polling averages and to create an impression that there's a red wave.

As I said, as you said, I've been doing this for 17 election cycles. And so I've seen

it all, you know, in terms of what Republicans do. But what they're doing now with the polling

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