French: We’re Going to Win Michigan, New Hampshire and Maine

One month out, 16 states early voting. So this is go time now. Is this a game of triage between now and November 3rd? Well, it's definitely not a game of triage for that. You're sticking with your money allotted as you planned all along. We have announced that we are pulling out of North Carolina because we do feel very confident where Roy Cooper is for this week. We are going to make decisions week by week in North Carolina, not ready to announce that we are triaging anywhere else, but we are actively looking at states like Kansas and South Carolina and Mississippi that are increasingly coming on the board because of strong Democratic candidates. Well, and we're seeing Republicans send more money to Kansas. And today we learned they're sending a $5 million what they described as insurance policy to South Carolina. Does Senate majority PAC need to match that or at least react to it? Probably. We're not able to match the money the Republicans have. They've really transactional as an election. So they have almost monopoly type money. But we are looking at South Carolina closely. We want to make sure that we are winning a majority and putting ourselves in place. We're invested in nine states. That map could expand. Uh, South Carolina. Kansas would be among those states that if we were to expand, we would be looking at. But we're focused right now on making sure that we can flip Texas and Iowa, Ohio, Alaska, the quarter toss up battleground states right now. President's going to Texas tomorrow, as we just mentioned. You heard me. Call it the white whale, which it has been for Democrats for some time. Why is it different now than, for instance, it was with Beto? People have a lot of bad memories about this. If they have a D after their name, is it anything more than candidate quality on the Republican side of this race? Ken Paxton is probably the worst candidate of this cycle. So more than once, yes, you have to. You have to give a lot of credit for the Republicans for putting up someone who's very unelectable. That being said, James Talarico, the Democratic candidate, is doing very good work and building on the work that O'Rourke and Collin already did in Texas to build that party and build that infrastructure. Also, you're seeing Hispanic voters who did swing toward Trump, and the Republicans last election cycle really moved back toward Democrats. And that is fueling a lot of Tallarico rise in the polls because of the work he's doing, talking about the border and talking about common sense immigration solutions. So really looking to appeal to those voters. Well, Talarico has also proven to be a prolific fundraiser. On his phone, we have seen he's just one example of a Democratic candidate who is able to perhaps win in fundraising in a way that the party committees on a national level are not. You mentioned how you don't have the cash advantage on Republicans. Why is it so much harder for Democrats to raise money through their national infrastructure? Well, I will say that we did have a record breaking, record breaking third quarter. We raised $202 million, which is nothing to sneeze at by any means. That being said, Republicans led by Donald Trump, President Donald Trump, our transactional izing elections. This is not a talking point. They really are opening up their floodgates in ways that we as Democrats just are not. That's why we backed campaign finance reform fairly aggressively so we don't get as much money coming in to these big party committees. Our candidates do a lot better, which in a lot of ways, and this is getting into the nitty gritty of campaigning, is a little bit better for us because they get to buy that ad time, which annoys everyone as they're trying to watch football at lower rates than we do. So we love to see our candidates out fundraising the Republicans, and it also does show a momentum on the ground. Final moment with you, Lauren. What's your biggest worry in the final stage here? What's the October surprise? Uh, the October surprise is are the is the polling wrong? Right? We've had this conversation over and over this cycle. I will say that our private polling, which we have a lot of faith in and has consistently proven accurate matches, public polling is matching public polling. So feeling there, but you always are worried that the ground game isn't going to get the people you out. You need out to vote to vote. Is there a single state you're worried most about? No, I'm actually fairly confident about a lot of these states. We're going to win New Hampshire, we're going to win Michigan, and we're going to win Maine.