Hey guys, it's Lauren Egan here at the bulwark. I'm joined today by Senator Adam Schiff of California.

He's the vice chair of the DSCC, which is the Democratic Senator, senatorial campaign committee.

And he's here today to talk to us a little bit about what the plan is for Democrats to win back the Senate this fall.

Senator, thanks for being here.

Great to be with you.

So it's been a big week for Democrats on the Senate side. Most notably, Mary Paltola announced that she's going to run for Senate in Alaska. She'd obviously been a top recruit of Senator Schumers. And this week, Senator Schumer has been out there talking about how she's really this last puzzle piece that fits into the Senate map.

And now he can really clearly see Democrats' path to win back the Senate. So talk to me a little

bit as specifically as you can, state by state, what the plan is, what the path is for Democrats

to flip the Senate. Sure. And just by way of setting the background, a year ago, I think most

people would have said, okay, really tough path for Democrats in the Senate, really hard to see

it being possible to foot the Senate. That has completely changed. There is now a very viable

path for the Senate to flip.

And it's because we've had such success with recruitment,

because we've had so many strong people decide to run in these very competitive states,

and because our incumbents are doing so well.

So let me start with, I think, four of the principal pickup opportunities.

They are North Carolina, where Roy Cooper, the very popular governor, is running for that open seat vacated by, or to be vacated by Tom Tillis.

He is as strong a candidate as we could possibly imagine.

That very much puts North Carolina in play.

In Ohio, Sherrod Brown was encouraged to run for his old seat in the Senate. He's running against the senator who was appointed to the Senate.

Sherrod is probably better known than the incumbent. And in a year where Donald Trump is not

on the ballot and with Sherrod's track record of

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