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Todd: “I think you just hit the — I think this is the identity crisis that they have. I think it’s just a collection of people that don’t like Trump right now, right? And that’s — that served them well in ‘20, but imagine trying to create a big tent that had AOC and John Kasich in it, right? You know? Or how about — or Liz Cheney and AOC. You sort of gotta rip a hole in the middle, right, as you’re trying to stretch that tent. And I think that that’s — that’s why they sort of have lost their — they’re just — it feels like they’re way too poll-tested. It feels like that they’re trying so hard to sort of keep their suburban voters, and that’s been part of their problem. The growth in the Democratic electorate is in the suburbs, wealthy suburbs, and so the growth of the Republican electorate has been in the working class excerpts and actually in the working class — even in working class urban areas. And I think that that’s been their disconnect, is that their voters are in one place, their messaging is in another, but then they — when they try to message to their suburban voters, they sort of lost touch to their — with their working class roots.”