Hey, everybody, Tim Miller, from the bulwark here.

I was just on Deadline White House with my friend Nicole and fellow Noralinian,

Mitch Landru, and as well as Basil Smichael.

And we were talking about the Democratic special election wins this week,

or at least in areas where they lost where they gained out of ground.

This is something,

you know, it's hard to cover all the special elections given the fact that Donald Trump is threatening civilizational annihilation in the Middle East and, you know, having deals, no deals.

And, you know, there's a lot in the news. But it's important to just get a sense of where

things are at. And you had in Marjorie Taylor-Green's district, the Republicans ended having to spend money to protect their candidate.

And the Democratic candidate had a 20-plus point improvement of what the Democrat did against Marjorie Taylor-Green in 2024.

And so that's good. You have a new Democratic mayor and

crucial Waukesha, Wisconsin. You had a Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin, a huge win by

the Democratic-aligned candidate. So lots of positive news in the special elections. And as you hear,

as I'm talking to Nicole, there's one particular shift number that I'm

looking to this year for people to keep in the back of their head.

That's this 14-point shift.

And you can hear more about that.

With Nicole, I wanted to talk about one of the things while we're here among friends.

I was just at a meeting of state Democratic parties and had the opportunity to meet a lot of folks who are like doing the work out there in the states, you know, working for the state parties, working for affiliated organizations.

And, you know, there's always a lot of focus on the big swing states and the big

races and the big candidates. But these are a lot of the folks who are like behind the scenes

doing working real, you know, in places where the Democrats might have unexpected victories

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