Welcome back to another episode of the Chuck Toddcast. It is day two in my sort of new world here.

And for my friends now on YouTube, hopefully you are liking and subscribing. I'm still learning the lingo.

So cut me a little bit of slack there. For episode one, I was able to talk about the post-election fallout of April 1st,

and that was just sort of the first temperature check, right?

In a conversation I had with Chris Cilis, I said, you know, it's like if you're a college basketball fan,

it's like watching those pre- those tournaments that take place in Hawaii over the holidays.

They count.

They're real regular season games.

They give you a sense of who's good, who's not, et cetera.

But it is not the be-all end-all.

But it's a temperature check.

You really get to find out what's your team made of.

And I think now we got a temperature check.

And we found out a few things that are, that really haven't changed, right? Number one is we still

have the shotgun Trump voters, as I mentioned yesterday. When Trump's not on the ballot, there is clearly

a five to ten point disadvantage for any Republican running. Democrats are a bit more fired up right

now. Frankly, I think there was a little bit of a

question. How fired up would the party be? There's been, you know, there's been a lot of disillusionment.

You've seen these town halls have gotten people fired up, but you've also seen Democrats get cranky

at other Democrats because they don't think that they're fighting hard enough. I think there

was some concern and some Democrats I talked to that maybe some

would sit on their hands. Well, you didn't have that. So you clearly were starting to see in some

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