with an inch back down it got a little bit underwater it was not nearly as underwater as it was you know before oh no no no absolutely not yeah i i think if you look at her appearances in 2024 versus 2019 which was running for president. She is unquestionably an improved candidate. You know, she's worked at it. Yeah.

But also when you when you when you get to parachute into the binary choice and all Democrats are going to talk themselves into you, I think that that's I don't know how much faith I put in that in terms of her improvement as a candidate. But then again, I also say, again, I'm more sympathetic to the idea that she was marching into a firing squad than, you know, that she did a particularly great

job. But this raises the question, I don't know if this is where you want to go with this conversation or not. If she does more interviews over the next two years, and she does act a little looser, she does seem a little more open and she develops more of a really solidifies what her persona is beyond what's happened in this sprint. Is she viable in 2028? We'll

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