Is Florida Feeling Blue?

0:00Let me assert my firm belief. Let me own this thing we have to say it. Be yourself. Hi everybody. Joe Trippie here, Democratic strategist and host of that Trippie show. With me, once again, is the other Joe celebrated journalist and nonfiction author, Joe Klein. We've both been at this game quite a long time and got a lot to get to today. And we have a great special guest as we get down the final days of the November election. But Joe, first I think you have a quote of the day, right? Yeah, our quote of the week and our quote of the week this week as many weeks. And indeed, as it could be true of every single day, comes from our president, our fearless leader Donald Trump.

1:01Explain to the American people if this is not a war, what exactly is it? Well, I'll tell you what, a lot of people don't call it a war. I call it a military conflict because it's it's small potatoes for us. It's not a big thing. Let us not play word games. You know, I mean, it's a small conflict. Well, my state of the day, I think most people will think it's not small potatoes, in terms of the impact. That's it. $100. It's over $100 now cost of oil for barrel, print crude today. And it doesn't look like it's going to change much anytime soon. And that's not small potatoes for a lot of people who are struggling to make it day to day right now with rising costs and tariffs and everything else. Particularly even the cattle dumping of 300,000 metric tons of cheap beef in the markets hurting cattle farmers from across the Midwest and the South.

2:08The with us today, the chair of the Florida Democratic Party, Nikki Fried, 55 days out, Nikki, great. Thank you for being with us. I mean, I'm glad you're here with us. Please explain to us what's going on. I mean, you got great candidates and I think a lot of people we've been saying for a long time. Don't go to sleep on Florida. We're going to win races down there. I'm glad you could bring us come on with us and put a spotlight on what's happening in four. Absolutely. And thank you, Joe, for having me on. I had my cup of Joe this morning, my mug from back in Joe Biden world. I look at it and starting off from your quote of the day and your statistics of the day, that is having a drastic impact on Floridians here. You know, we've had 30 years of one party control of the state and Florida has now become the most unaffordable state in the nation based on Republican Florida politics. Now you add on this war that is increasing all of our everyday expenses from, as you said, gas.

3:12And as our past Commissioner of Agriculture, knowing the cost of our diesel has an drastic impact on the operations of our ag industry here in our state and the nation. And then of course, the straight being closed, as opposed to what the president says, the straight is closed. It's impacting fertilizer, fertilizer costs. And so when you start having all of these quadruple whammies on our economy, every day people of our nation are really suffering. And the fact that the president won't call this a war and we've lost 18 proud Americans is really such a disservice to our country and to the proud men and women who serve and have given the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. But here in Florida, we have been flipping seats. So we've been winning. We flipped 26 seats in the last 18 months. That's everything from the mayor of of Key West to Miami mayor, the bulk of mayor to mayors you've probably never heard of before counting in city commission school board races because people are fed up. They're fed up with the corruption coming out of Tallahassee. They're fed up of the of the prices that are coming out because of these horrible policies from the Republicans.

4:20And we got incredible candidates running for legislative seats. We're going to get ourselves out of the super minority this year. Incredible congressional candidates, veterans, first responders, teach for America alumni. And not only do I think that we're going to take back all eight of our seats that they tried to dummy man or us out of, but we're going to flip a couple more. So I'm very excited about where we are today. I'm going to see him down in Key West, big shout out to him and to others down there because they really, we really had a good day down there. And I think there's more there's another runoff down there where I think it could flip as well. Tell us what's going on in the like I just keep looking at you know obviously I helped the jolly campaign with it, you know advice and stuff, but I just keep looking at fire and Donald's and what is going on in that race. But it's a lot of race.

5:20No, I mean, first of all, he's on his way to Texas. So screw the people of Florida. You know, forget all the issues that are happening here. He's jetting over to Texas to go kiss the ring and to make sure that he is in the crowd and on stage supporting this president who is underwater here in Florida. He's got that with independence, he is at 23% approval rating and one third of our state is independent is how we've been winning all these seats. They've been breaking for us 60 70%. But here's the deal with Bryron. He doesn't know what he is. You know, he'll go into a conversation. He'll say one thing for one group of donors and then he moves to another and has another conversation. But when you first see the hundred million dollars, hundred million dollars before the primary. And that is from 75 different people that is pay to play billionaires that is big tech companies as the data centers. And what's funny about the data centers is that there was an actual Republican memo. I think out that was sent to Ohio that talked about how to back away from talking about the data centers because they are so unpopular.

6:24And so it's interesting that that memo came out and you start seeing Bryron changing a little bit of what he's saying about them. But the end of the day he wants them everywhere wants to give complete credibility to all of these data centers and to the people that want to build them. Why don't people want them everywhere? They are the future. You know Joe, the one thing that here in Florida that we no matter if you're a Democrat Republican, independent, not registered, just moved to here, been here for generations. The one thing we all agree about is the environment. You can even pull Republicans here in Florida and the one thing that we all come together on, you know, is how much the environment impacts the everyday quality way of life here in our economy. Our top three economic drivers here in Florida is tourism, construction and agriculture. All three of them that need a quality environment for people to come and stay here, live here, visit here. And of course agriculture being the second largest economic driver of our state. It has the greatest impact when you have all of these data centers that are not only wanting to be put in our world communities, impacting their quality way of life, taking energy, taking water supply sources and become nuisance.

7:37And so without any of these regulations and this coming into our parts of our state that once this land is gone, it's gone forever. And the destruction to the environment, we don't even know what will come next. And that's why everybody's here saying take a pause, look at better regulations, let's figure out how to protect our environment while understanding that the internet, the AI world is not going anywhere and how do we as the human race deal with us. Let me ask you a question. I've known Donald Trump for 40 years. Sorry. And yeah. And he's always been the same. He was always, you know, an egomaniacal sociopathic idiot. Narcissistic, you were Narcissistic in there. Well, yeah, sociopathic. Narcissistic with criminal tendencies. But you guys lost to him twice. He lost him last time really badly.

8:37And I'm wondering what's different about the Democratic Party in 2026 from where it was in 2024? Yeah, it is. First of all, I got to go take us back a little bit further. The timeline doesn't start in 24. The time when I really start in 22. Well, really in 18, when when when Ron DeSantis won by 33,000 votes, he saw that it for some reason as a mandate. And so he's our putting policies into place that made it harder for voter registration, voter suppression, the gerrymandering of our districts. I mean, I can go on for more than we have time about what he has done in our state. And then you fast forward to 2022 where the party was not engaged. I was our statewide elected and had very little interaction with the party as far as supporting our candidates and being on the ground and doing year round organizing. And so in 2022, we had the worst loss. Florida Democrats have ever experienced. We had 52% turnout.

9:37The party, the bottom of the party completely crashed out. We lost down ballot races. We lost county commission races. We lost legislative races. We lost the governor's race and the US Senate race by 19 points. Absolutely unheard of. And so when I got out of office in 2023, I was not planning on running for chair. I was planning on making sure that Ron DeSantis never became president of the United States and going on to some national conversations. But I really realized that in order for my home state, state that I was born and raised in my parents were born and raised here, that we got to get back to balance. And so I took over as chair of this party in 2023 and to stop the bleeding at first. You know, to get some programming I walked in and there was no, there was no voter registration. There was no vote by mail program. There was no communication shop. No fundraising. Nothing. There was nothing here. And so we had to build the infrastructure. Stop the bleeding. And the fact was, I know sounds horrible. We lost by seven points less. We flipped. We got the Miami-Dade mayor on the first ballot in August of 24.

10:37We flipped a whole bunch of school board races in 24 as well. We won Dona Deegan and Jack Simill in actually in 2023. So we slowed the roll. Slowed some of that that bleeding down in 24 and started getting us back into messaging guidance, candidate quality recruitment and really getting the infrastructure. Now you fast forward to 2025. And we started last year what we're calling the pendulum, which is year round statewide organizing, which is very similar to what was constant did. Michigan did North Carolina did to get them out of their their horrific trifecta red. And that's what we've done. And so since then we have knocked on and communicated with voter contact of 1.7 million Florens. And that is just the party apparatus. That's not candidates. That's not any of our sister organizations. That is just the party. And so we've we've talked about six train 6,000 volunteers across our state. 40 different organizations. And so we are different party today than we were even in 2024 beginning part of 2025.

11:37That's what's produced our wins. We've got incredible candidates. We've got boots on the ground. We're consistently talking to voters and delivering results for those new elected positions. That's that seems very impressive technically, logistically and so on. But you know, we're still living in the world where Kamala Harris is for they then. Donald Trump is for you is an is an effective ad. We're still living in a world where Democrats are in favor of making distinctions according to race. And most Americans opposed to that. How how have you modified and how have your candidates dealt with the cultural issues that to my mind decided 2024? You know, we were the lab rats of project 2025. Everything started here in Florida. Everything everything that don't say gay bill, the book banning black history. I mean every that the destination to our public education system.

12:38The going after LGBTQ plus community all of that started in Florida. So for eight years Florida Democrats have been dealing with this this mess. And so what is so remarkable about this moment. Every single Democrat that is on the ballot. Whether school board all the way up to US Senate and everything in between. Are talking about the actual issues. These are ways that the Republicans try to scare boogie men over here and put labels on here and try to divide our communities. And the end of the day. Floridians I'm watching them. I'm watching them in the food stores and they're looking at their receipts. And you could just see the emotions of a mother as as the receipt is much more than she would have fab them. And that in that shopping spree. Or I'm watching my my my grandfather. You know who unfortunately is is is got stage four cancer. And get health care that that he needs. Because we have not expanded Medicaid here.

13:38And so all of these things that are happening that we are able to go right back to the actual issues that are keeping. Florida's families up at night. And in the pain that so many families are having to make this decision between their medicine. And their grocery bills to pay for their their utilities bill this month or their rent. These are real decisions that families are having to make every single day here in Florida. And so we are not letting their Republicans play this boogie man game with us. Not letting them divide us in these culture wars. And reminding people that we used to talk to our neighbors. We used to say hey, you know, I see that you need a jump on your car. Let me bring over some cables. Or hey, we just had a hurricane. I have an extra saw that electric saw that you can use. We got to get back there. And that's what David Jolley is really talking about on the campaign trail is how to turn the page of these culture wars. This divisiveness of telling people to hate your neighbors. And getting back to the actual issues that are keeping families up. Yeah, it's been like night and day. I mean, having been you know, I live in Florida five, six months of the year.

14:43I mean, I can use the same thing, you know, I can change my voter registration, so I could. And starting to make that process. But you can tell, I mean, on the ground, the difference in the party, Nicky, the job you and the party staff have done is just, I mean, boots on the ground, don't go into that clearly made a difference down in Key West, because I was sort of really paying attention down there. But I know it's everywhere. I could see it when I'm on calls with like this, just lots of volunteers going. And I do think Jolly's message to of, let's start talking to each other and stop all the hate. And then of course, the Republicans come back with some divisive thing and it just sort of plays into that message. So I think that's right. The question I've got is, are you seeing it like in the house races,

15:43I think the candidates there, are they doing as good a job as Jolly and others? Yeah, that we're paying more attention to. What's the play in the house races in Florida right now? Yep. So first of all, we are under the concept here of reverse co-tails, which is something that's happening across the country, right? That all of us say parties, especially those in the South, we are doing some incredible work down here in the South. And so if anybody who's watching, please don't give up on the South because we do by the time we get to 2030, 2032 when redistricting actually happens, 40% of the American population is moved to the South. And so if we don't start playing and start winning these things, Florida and Texas are picking up electoral votes, are picking up congressional seats as is Tennessee and North Carolina. So we gotta be paying attention here in the South. And so their reverse co-tails is what's lifting everybody up here. And that is on the house too. We have for the first time, and probably, I don't even know how many decades, that the house and the Senate caucuses and the party and all of our sister organizations

16:44are so locked step together. We talk to each other every single day. So that way with unfortunately limited resources, but go to Florida. It's not a work if you have a couple extra dollars to give to us, that with the limited resources, we know that we gotta get our dollars to stretch further. So we have been very strategic on where we're putting financial resources. And that is looking into what we talk about, like we're calling nesting seats. And so we know we have to protect Jared Mosquit. And so what are the seats underneath Jared that make sense for us to do work on, whether it was the Boca Mayor, which we won by five votes and putting the work on the ground to get that election done that gets voter interaction, that gets Boca Mayor reenlistments that helps for the general election. And that's what we're seeing with our legislative seats too. So we have nested them in with our congressional seats, so when I'm crisscrossing our state, I am leaning in to our down ballot, to congressional and legislative seats because we have to get out of a super minority. Because when we win David Jolly,

17:45if he has a super majority Republicans, they have the power to override all this vetoes. So we have to make sure that we get ourselves out of the super minority. And that's what we're all focused on. We've got incredible house candidates. We filled almost every single seat open the second cycle that we have done that and I've been chair. I think we're down, we missed nine seats, but in the grand scheme of things at the end of the day, that's not too terrible. But we certainly are seeing a lot of these house candidates just be phenomenal human beings. Forget the Democrat, forget the Republican label. Just good people that want to show up to Tallahassee and represent not Democrats, not Republicans, but the constituents of the entire district. And that's what the difference of the second cycle is going to make too. You have a fairly large Jewish community in Florida. And I'm just wondering how Israel is playing there and how would you describe the difference between Democrats and Republicans

18:45in these races on the subject of Israel? Yeah, this is obviously a complicated issue and party politics today on both sides, the conversation. I don't mix words. You see this sort of David around my neck. I am a devout Jew and supporter of Israel. Do I like what BB is doing? Of course not. I don't think anybody can watch what's happening in the Middle East and continue to support BB in this moment. And I am, you know, praying every day that come off to October when Israel has democratic elections, which is the only country in the Middle East that has democratic elections, will take their own power into their own hands and change from liquid leadership. But when it comes to Florida, I mean, we have the largest Jewish, one of the largest Jewish populations in the country. And it has been a divisive issue. It has been something that has been hard to watch for those of us who will and continue. I've got this household supports Israel sign in front of my house.

19:45That is not going to change. No matter how much I get yelled at. And so it is a divisive issue. It played a little bit more in the primaries on both sides of the conversation, which unfortunately has created a horrifically horrible, gut-wrenching rise of anti-Semitism that all of us have experienced personally. And that we have to get back to figuring out how to have these conversations without yelling at each other, without demeaning each other and being willing to understand why this is so personal to the Jewish community, not just here in Florida, but the entire diaspora. If that's not the most difficult issue, and it might be, what do you think the most difficult issue for Democrats is right now in Florida? You know, I think that as far as Democrats are concerned, I think that the reality is, and it's not just Florida, but it's happening across the country because their Republicans have been so deliberate of how they have gerrymandered districts.

20:47You saw here in Florida how they gerrymandered some of our districts. It has created what used to be a very tight, very tight symbiotic relationship between the Jewish and Black communities. And I think that what has happened over the last couple of years, that that hard core base the Democratic Party, which is our Black voters and our Jewish voters, their Republicans have done a masterful job of getting it to go like this. And so that's something that I deal with every day, trying to bring our coalitions back together. There's a lot of pain on both sides of this conversation, and it's going to take leaders in this moment to stand up, stand up and bring people together to remind everybody that we are stronger together, that our shared history in this country, and how we move through it together, has to be remembered, and we got to find ways to get that there. Who's doing that well? I'm sorry.

21:47I mean, I'm having a lot of conversations behind closed doors, but I think that when this election is over, I think there really is, and it's not, and look, I say this because I'm chair, but this isn't just a democratic issue, that this is American issue, that this is something that we as Americans have to deal with, that the rise of racism and anti-Semitism and all the isms are hurting each other. And that's not how we're supposed to interact with one another. And so I think that there's got to be adults in the room, I think that we don't have time for this election because it should not be election driven. It should be about who we are as Americans, but this conversation has to happen. And how do we figure out a way to bring coalitions back together for the greater good of society? Yeah, look, everywhere I go, and I've been doing a lot of focus groups in the South, in Alabama, in other places that people are gonna be surprised, I think, of what's happening. But the energy level on our side of it,

22:48whether it's young people, of coming together and changing, turning the page on Trump and Maga, is everything I'm seeing far exceeding any of their ability to divide and do their usual garbage. It's just not having the same impact. I'm not saying it won't joke, but I'm just not, it just, for whatever reasons, young people in particular, who may have a difference of opinion on Israel, are still rallying and coming out for the Democrats against Trump. And whether that's because they think Trump's more aligned with BB, whatever, I haven't gotten into enough of it. But the two things that I keep seeing over and over everywhere, particularly in the South, are the energy among Democrats and independents for change. And even now some, a larger size group of Republicans,

23:54and corresponding almost depression with among Republicans in terms of talking blatantly about not voting this time, it's complaining about prices, about forever wars and all that. I think the old playbook, I will see, because that's why we have the elections, but I don't think the old playbook is going, I think it's going to backfire. I'm gonna be interesting to see what happens at the convention tonight in the morning. Are you mean that Trump up a loser? Yeah, you have to. I think the emphasis should be on loser. Right. But I think you're right, Joe, and I talk a lot about this too, part of my job as chair isn't just to leave the inner organization, it's just steer policy, it's just steer conversations, and I'm a polysci, through and through, I got one of my bookshelves, I have all of my old polysci books, I have a master's in political campaigning,

24:55is to be able to have these strategy conversations. And I think that what is happening in society has really been going on since how Trump got elected in 2016. He came out with this populist movement that the system is not working for you, you know, and there's spewing all of these things, which talk to people, right? You know, talk to people that are used to the suits, both on Democrat and Republican side, they come in their suits, they come in their private planes, their steak dinners, their donor meetings, and Trump was like, is that? But said, look, I got a solution for you. Let me sell you a bill of goods. And so they came in and then they forgot of how bad it actually was. And so I think that there is an economic populist movement that is happening in our country on both sides of the aisle, because the economy isn't working. We all got sold, you know, trickle down economics from Reagan and thinking that that was going to be the end all be all, if people get richer at the top and we're money trickles down to the bottom, and that's just not how it worked, money say to the top. And so now you're seeing it in such high-first speed

25:58with a big, beautiful bill, with what happened with Doge, with the cutting of regulations, with our economy going through, taking, and I think that people are just frustrated, and they need tangible solutions, not just double speak from politicians, which is why you're seeing, even on the Democratic side, you know, incumbents getting taken out, because people want answers. They want to know that you're not just going to go to DC or to the capitals and continue voting and maybe a little movement here or there. They want real change. They want FDR new policies in our country and they're tired of, doesn't matter who wins because it's the same policies. Well, I know you got Doge taking a meat axe, firing tons of people, dismantling whole departments, and geez, last time I checked, what is it? $40 trillion deficit, we're $40 trillion in debt. In other words, it didn't do crap. I mean, it was all- But you know what it did? How many more recalls can we get every day? Yeah. You know, our supply chain is not steady anymore.

26:59People are scared to buy food and they're throwing the, it's a mess. It's just a mess. I had to stop going to Taco Bell. It was, that's tragic joke. Yeah, I know. No, but seriously, I mean, that's a joke. But it's just amazing. They dismantled all this stuff. People's lives are worse for it. And it didn't, by the way, hey, I'd be all gain if we really did not put trillion dollars off the debt, but it didn't do anything. It just kept going. And it doesn't seem to be, I mean, the war, spending, et cetera. It's, and people know it. They can feel it. They see it every day. That's what I think is going on. It's, but it's, you know, the problem is where it always was in three different places, and entitlements, healthcare, and the third, it's service on the debt.

28:01I mean, we're paying an awful lot for all of that 40 trillion that we borrowed. And, you know, it seems to me that most Americans would be in favor of something like Doge. And the fact is that Democrats did it a lot better under Bill Clinton with reinventing government. And I think that part of the problem that Democrats are having in creating credibility is that they are boggled by all of these regulations, which makes it harder to build housing, makes it harder to build a 21st century electric grid, makes it harder in a place like California, and maybe in Florida, to have high speed rail. And I, you know, and, and whenever I see a Democratic acknowledging that pragmatic things have to be done to make government work better,

29:01it'd be a little easier. Yeah, you know, I had that opportunity. First of all, the rail here in Florida blame Rixot. It was in our Florida Constitution. There was matching money for it, and Rixot didn't want to take federal dollars to build our rail. So here we are. No, I was commissioned about a quarter of four years, you know, which has significant amount of regulations, from every I oversaw 19 divisions, and every part of it from consumer awareness, consumer fraud, everything had high regulations. And I came in and I asked those questions, you know, I was the first Democrats that been commissioned about a culture in almost three decades, first female ever. And I asked those questions, is this going to make it better? And then I would wash as emails would come in from, you know, constituents saying, hey, I had a problem with this, I wasn't getting the right answer. And I made it a very big point to cut through red tape, to reduce regulations that were disillied as to be on the books, for the sake of living on the books, to listen to the actual producers and to listen to the people that were impacted by these regulations. And we made changes.

30:03You know, I'm sure at some point, some regulation is put into place because something happened, that's what us lawyers do. We go to try to fix something, and sometimes we overcompensate for the problem. And not until which time that somebody who's being impacted by it, brings it to our attention, and you gotta be smart enough and listen enough to actually pull it back. Another thing that Dem say that troubles me is with regards to 2028, we can't afford to put up another woman. And I disagree with that. I kind of suspect you might too, but how do you counter arguments like that? You know, you've never had a female governor of the state of Florida. You've never had a female president of the United States. Us women lead better. No offense to the men on this call or to the men that are listening. I agree. I agree. I agree. I've had women editors for four to four years. And none of them were tougher than Tina Brown

31:06at the New Yorker or Nancy Guges in time. Yeah, I mean, we cut through the BS. We leave our egos at the door. We try to find compromise. We try to find solutions to problems. We don't just like to put our names in the media. We actually like to get shit done. And I think that it's going to, nobody should be ruled out, right? If you have a passion to want to be the standard bearer of democracy for the world and to bring back the beacon of light and hope for the world, I say go for it. I will never tell as somebody who has the first female to have been elected as Commissioner of Agriculture. I will always, and I think I'm only the second female to have been elected Commissioner of Agriculture in the entire South. And I always am going to support and want to see strong women running for these high positions. Because it's not just about serving the positions. It's about inspiring the nation. It's when I was on my campaign trail for governor. Like I sought out every little girl in an audience

32:09and made sure that I was directly connecting with her to show her what is possible in this world that all the doors and all the ceilings that have been closed in on you. When you have strong women who are willing to break, I think Nancy Pelosi, correct to me once I said that the glass ceiling, she's like, no, Nikki, it is a marble slab that we have to keep chipping away at. We will get there and certainly would not want to just credit any female who has a passion and desire to make the math work in one of the President's United States. So Nikki, we're running out of time here. We're getting down to our half hours spot. We usually, Joe might want to keep going with some of his questions. I think that we don't want to test the patience of our listeners and viewers. No, what I wanted to do is just give you a few minutes here at the end to tell us about some of the candidates. I mean, again, about are there congressional seats in particular that you think people should focus?

33:10I mean, trying to get our viewers listeners to like, you know, don't look past Florida, actually help out. Jolly, I think, is starting to get some real traction. People know about his campaign and certainly people who are listening or watching. If you want to help in the South, David Jolly could use your help. But are there other districts candidates, the party, where can they go to? I'll just give you a few minutes here to thank you for what's important in the state and where the people can help. Absolutely. A lot of people have talked about, or decades, Florida, Florida, Florida, and they throw a lot of money into our state. We've got five at the largest, most expensive medium markets. We've got seven altogether, but five and most expensive. And so people shy away from wanting to invest here and spend here because of it. But what I have said is that don't spend here, invest here. And that is the infrastructure that we have been building

34:10here on the ground that no candidate can win statewide without here in Florida after what we've been dealing with without a strong Democratic Party infrastructure. And so go to FloridaDemps.org. And you can see all the great work that we have been doing sign up for our newsletters. But of course, we've got incredible congressional candidates that are running for some of the time for real-life, you know, not Jared Mosquitz, Darren Soto and Kathy Kaster, who I have complete confidence that we will send them back to Washington, DGC. All three of them have been exceptional leaders for the state, exceptional leaders for democracy. But we also have some other ones, including Lila Gray, who is up in CD 13. She is taking on a Polina Luna, who is also making her way onto the stage of Trumpa Paloza. Because she gives me sickest the ring and bow down to Trump a couple more times. So we got her over there. We also have Jennifer Jenkins, who was our for Vard School Board member. She's running in CD 6.

35:12She's also has taken on MAGA, Moms for Liberty, is also just an exceptional human being and fighter. Then we got bail gotten up in CD 7. That is a seat that we absolutely should win. They took out quarry mills and the primary. But you know, it's still a seat that we think that we can bring. Pia Bidia, Bidia down in CD 22. She's phenomenal, a phenomenal human being. Teach for America alumni. When she graduated, she took her own personal dollars. We opened up her own high school in Harlem. So again, just incredible human being. And Elliott Rodriguez down in CD 27, who's taken on crazy Salazar. And then we've got Phil Err down in CD 28, who's taking on Carlos Mendes, who has also been a life on our art at South Florida, Hispanic community. So we've got a lot of stuff going on, a lot of incredible candidates.

36:13And that was just a few that I can't name off. But we've got them gave out a amount up in CD 1. I've got just really exceptional candidates and most of them. You mentioned before, let me just ask a quick question. You mentioned before that some of them were veterans. I am on the advisory board of the bipartisan military caucus in the Congress. And we're losing, we've been losing some candidates the last few days. We lost Seth Moulton in Massachusetts. Yesterday we lost a really excellent woman candidate in New Hampshire, Morris Sullivan. Who are your veterans and what are they like? Yeah, inspiring. I was talking about Lila Gray. I think she is 21 years that she was in Army and has been here in Florida. Her daughter in a university is either at or graduated from the University of Florida. So go get her. She's ready. My Gator is watching. She is phenomenal.

37:13If you haven't been watching her, she is just exceptional. Bill Dalton is another one of our veterans who is running. He was Chief of Staff for NASA. He also flew helicopters in the Navy. So we've got those two. We've got a house candidate down in Fort Laudereo for a house district 100. The last of our Broward Republican seats that we will take this year. So we've got a lot of veterans that are running throughout our slate. And I'm just naming a couple of them. But there is probably about five to seven more on our congressional slate and legislative slate. Yeah, hopefully the ones that you can't remember because we keep asking you. The name of the... I love them all. They all see them all. I love them all. I asked the question. They put you in the predicament. It's OK. That's my job to know all of our candidates and know where we're putting resources and energy on the ground.

38:14But they're taking that fighting spirit to the polls and to the doors because they understand what's on the line. Yeah, listen folks. I've been out there on the ground. Joe, we've been watching. I mean, from Georgia with Osop over through North Carolina with Cooper, Doug Jones and Alabama going to Florida. I mean, you just across the South, something really is happening. The energy and the drop off on energy on the other side. But fundamentally, I think in Alabama and in Florida, I mean, two places that stay in obviously, Georgia, where they've been organizing and organizing and organizing, which is what you need to do is what's really happening is the Democratic parties of Florida, Alabama, and across the South have figured out that knocking on doors every two years in October is a not-enweening strategy.

39:15And so grassroots, bottom-up organizing on the ground, thousands of volunteers working every day for months, something's building up there out there. And I think people who can help in Florida, help the party, help Jolly, help some of these house candidates that Nikki introduced to us today if you have some extra to chip in now at the time. Thanks, Nikki, for being with us. Thank you, Nikki. Thanks, Joe Swear. And I'll just get to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Thank you.