Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 1.

Hello, America. How are you? It is Eric Erickson here. My goodness gracious, six days.

Five days. What is it it Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday yep six days six days until the election doom is upon us if you're a Democrat the rest of us

we will skate by fine.

I told you guys something was going to happen.

Told you so.

This is not my real I told you so moment,

but it kind of is my told you so moment.

It is.

I said one of the signs of a wave was going to be when the blame game starts once the blame game starts and it starts before the election, you know the wave is upon us.

You just do.

It's what happens.

The wave is upon us.

How do I know the wave is upon us? Well, here is the headline from

Axios, Democrats tattered coattails. With a week to go before the midterm

elections, some Democratic operatives working on House races are already

beginning to assign blame in the event of their party loses winnable seats.

The culprit, they say, is Blue State governors dragging down the rest of the ballot.

In New York, in California, in Illinois, in New Jersey, in Oregon, governors are not that popular. New York's 25th and California's 26th in deep blue territory have attracted spending from both parties.

One Democratic strategist working on House campaign said there's a direct correlation between the

performance of Governor Kathy Ogle in New York and Governor Gavin Usom in California and

the event effects it's having on House candidates.

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