So what I really wanted to talk about, we got into, which is the beauty of what happened in Texas and Florida and whether that is replicable beyond Texas and Florida.

I'm always a little reluctant to echo what somebody apparently did at the DeSantis victory celebration the other night.

People started chanting two more years

because they wanted to run for president. I think there's far too much focus on presidential

politics and it plays well in national media because media has national audience when I would

much rather see a guy like that continue to strive to make Florida great.

I'd love to see Greg Abbott.

But I know that we have to draw that, you know, the farm team for presidency is best developed among the governors.

And so it would be nice to get somebody like that who has some executive experience

and knowing how to deal

with the monster that is bureaucracy in doing that. I just, I don't want us in the, in the sadness

over what should have been an historic takeover of Congress. I mean, frankly, you've got a tailwind of high inflation, the

sense of a doomed economy. You've got the least popular president in the last, I think,

seven administrations. His approval rating was like at 41%. It was lower by far than almost anybody

else. And in those those years when you had an

unpopular president, even without a bad economy, you saw big chunks of transition in the House

of Representatives. You saw the Senate changing hands and things like that. And here, somehow,

I mean, Joe Biden is a genius in the sense that when he ran for office, he hid in his

basement. This time around, people wouldn't let him come to speak for them in their campaigns

in the states. And so Biden has figured out the, it was Charles Grosden's biography title,

which is how nice it would be if you weren't here.

And so he's figured out the magic of not being present.

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