Hello and welcome to How to Win 2024.

It's Thursday morning, October 10th.

I'm Claire McCaskill and I'm here.

In fact, I'm tickled pink to be here with my guest co-pilot today.

He's a veteran Republican strategist and Communications Pro, Brendan Buck.

He served two consecutive House Speaker and Ran Communications for the House Ways and Means Committee,

among many other posts.

And he is my colleague as an MS NBC political analyst.

Hey Brendan.

Hey Claire, treat to be with you here.

We're in crunch time now.

Yeah, this is when I start getting texts from Senate candidates that are very nervous.

And I think they communicate with me more in the closing weeks of a campaign

because they know I understand how gut-wrenching, anxiety filled, and hard the last four or five days are.

Although I always thought the last week was pretty easy because you've done everything you can do, right?

Everything is in place yeah

it's just nerves it's very nervy right I think it's it's at least for me it's I'm not even

involved in the campaign but it's starting to get very nervy for me right now

yeah I do think I said this yesterday in a speech I gave. I do

think this particular election has more anxiety attached to it than typically.

For people who are paying close attention, I think there is a tremendous amount of anxiety.

And I feel it and I think most people do.

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