Hi, I'm Dan Premak, host of Axios Recap, and welcome to another Axios Election 2020 special podcast.

And I am pleased to be joined by Axios co-founders Jim Vandahai and Mike Allen to give us some intel on what the campaigns are telling them.

Mike, let's start with you.

What is the most interesting thing you have heard from somebody tonight tied into one of

the two campaigns?

Excruciating is the word that you hear from Democrats.

We had said there was no landslide.

We had said that this was going to take a while.

All those things are turning out to be true. Democrats, when they see Florida going to Trump, when they see so many states super

close, closer than they expected, really worried. So, okay, so then Jim, let me ask the flip of that.

If Democrats, if the word is excruciating, is it elation for Republicans or cautious optimism?

I don't even know if it's cautious optimism.

I don't think they look at the map right now and feel like they have a great chance of winning.

I think they look at Florida and they feel really good, but they felt really good in the final days leading up to the election.

And Democrats felt nervous.

But they definitely feel like their turnout operation worked, that people

did break their way at the end. They feel good about the turnout and the vote in some of these

areas with the Hispanic vote in particular. People weren't paying that much attention to it,

but they're confident that he's going to overperform 2016. So given all the headwinds, they feel a hell of a lot better right now

than they felt probably at any point in the last couple months. I wanted to ask, particularly the

Hispanic vote in Florida, although we don't really have the kind of breakdown of how much is that

Cuban compared to others. There's been this narrative, and we've written it in others, that long-term

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