Hey there, it's Michael. Last week, we kicked off our midterms coverage on the daily,

with a conversation with our colleague, political correspondent, Astedt Hunden.

He's covering this election season on his new show, The Run Up, which explores the how

and the why of this fraught moment in American politics. Today, Episode 2.

You're right, the political homelessness, that's exactly how I feel.

So the more I've tried to understand how we got here.

Feeling homeless and politics is...

Why people are feeling such profound levels of political disconnect?

There isn't a place for anybody to be.

You know, it's like the land is no more moderate.

The more I felt like, a lot of it has to do with some really flawed assumptions.

Assumptions, political leaders have served up about this country, about who we are,

and where we're going, and that have turned out to be dead wrong.

Good morning and welcome to the National Press Club.

So to really tell that story, we got to start in 2013.

To take control of Congress, just a few months after Barack Obama won his second term in office.

It's tough to be a political party chairman, especially one on the losing end of a 2012 campaign

for the White House and full congressional control.

The Republicans were trying to understand where they had gone wrong.

Please help me give a warm welcome.

And the person in charge of that was Ryan's Privis.

Well, I appreciate that introduction. Thank you everybody. Good morning.

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