Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the Bork, and I am pleased to be joined by Senator Tim Cain of the Great Commonwealth of Virginia. I got that right. See?

You didn't, Sam. Very good, man. I have a few things I can still get right. We are talking in the morning after a fairly smashing and resounding victory for Virginia Democrats and frankly for Democrats across the country. The party captured,

recaptured, all the statewide offices made huge gains in the State Assembly. And yeah, I want to

start off with a difficult question, but it's very hard to find one for you. So I'm going to go

with this one. What's your hot take on the elections from

last night? And it has to be unique. Don't make it a bland take, okay? Yeah, no, I'm going to,

I mean, I'll tell you the truth. Abigail was very, very disciplined. And she made her campaign

about the economy. There were three pillars. It was affordability and jobs

and education, but education is really key to the workforce, not just kids, but to the workforce.

And she stuck in that lane no matter what they tried to throw at or no matter what the other

side was going after. She never got out of that. And that has been my critique, Sam,

of Democrats for a long time, is that the economy is always the issue that matters the most

to the most people. But when you do a generic polling of the American public, well, who's better

for the economy, Republicans or Democrats? Usually they say Republicans, even though I think

the evidence is actually

better for Democrats, but Democrats just talk about other stuff. We just can't resist chasing this

or that rabbit and talking about other stuff and we don't make the economy front and center.

And I think campaigns like Abigail's and look very different than the New York mayor,

but they ran on affordability.

So I think they're showing us a path, which is put the economy front and center.

Many other issues are really important.

Talk about them too, but put the economy front and center.

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