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He's also a political consultant, perhaps a political wizard on his best days. Great to have you, Ryan.

Thanks for having me. So let's start with American voter in 2024. You crunch the numbers. You looked at the data.

It's about to get real, right? We got a Republican debate coming up soon. It's going to be the primaries before we know it.

People are going to be casting ballots. What do folks need to know about how 2024 is shaping up by the numbers so far?

Well, the biggest thing is what what is the demographics of the country going to look like? That's a big, big question.

You know, when George Bush ran in 2004, the country was almost 80% of the voting electorate was white.

You go to some swing states like Florida, I don't know, sorry, North Carolina. North Carolina was a biracial state. It was just black and white.

People who are not black, not white or less than 2% of the voting population. Those things aren't the same aren't true anymore at all.

And I think what happens in people's heads specifically is they get frozen in time.

You know, the population of voters who will be millennials and zoomers will be up substantially.

There were basically no zoomers in, there were none at all in 16 and they were very few in 2020. They'll be substantially millions more in 2024.

And a lot of the biggest swing states like North Carolina, again, Arizona, Florida, have had population growth that exceed the amount, the margins of previous election cycles.

And just because something happened four or eight years ago, because the net migration, interstate and migration, let alone forget an immigration.

It's not to interstate migration is so large and so profound. The, the fixed population and the fixed voting demographics have changed substantially. And that's we'll forget mostly.

What is the biggest up for grabs voting demographic for 2024? Like if you could.

I mean, I, yeah, I make, I mean, there has been substantial change in the Asian and Hispanic vote. And I'll take an example of New York City, for example, New York City in Bronx, which you know the Bronx, the Bronx is a very heavily heavily Hispanic majority population with no functional Republican party.

There is no Republican party in the Bronx. There might as well not be.

Their population, people who voted Republican in that county almost doubled from some 2016 to 2020.

And then in 2021, there was the mayoral election and the population of people voting Republican increase, even as the Republican candidate for mayor got like 28% in the city.

And then if you look at the governor's race, which was more competitive, obviously, the population of Republicans voting in that county increased again.

Republicans did not gain any new votes from 2022, from 2020 to 2022, but they did not lose any support amongst Hispanics.

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