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PSAKI: "And that is remarkable, if you think about it. If you look back on the NBC poll in January, Democrats were not that into the midterms, you know. They just weren’t that into it. They did not think they were going to participate as many. It's gone up by 20 percentage points almost, the excitement and the enthusiasm for participating. That is largely related to Dobbs, largely related to women across the country, young women across the country, and even men, being scared of a woman’s right to choose being taken away from them. The other truth is that when you’re the party in power — and I've sat in White Houses where you're the party in power — it's almost always a referendum, to your point, because people are looking at whether they are satisfied with how things are going in the country. That’s hard to run as a referendum against you, right? It's much better as a choice. But to your point, it’s largely flipped now where people are saying the anger is among the members of the Democratic Party, which is the party in power, which is so rare for that to be the case. People are enthused, they’re engaged, they want to get out and vote, they want to participate in the process. And many Democrats, women, independents, who were not that excited, were going to be in their jammies on election night as of a few months ago, they don’t want their rights to be taken away. That has been a huge factor that’s changed the dynamics in the race."