I think people from the West like it, including Pritzker, kind of seem as like a little provincial. They don't seem like national figures in the same way that East Coast or maybe West Coast politicians do. I mean, when people think about an electability candidate, being the governor of a super, super blue state like Illinois is also not that impressive. With Gretchen Whitmer, you can say she won a purple state running away in the 2022 midterms. It was never really a question. You could say the same thing about Warnock sort of impressively winning these nationalized statewide campaigns back to back to back.
Galen Druke and Nate Silver open up the mailbag and answer listener questions about politics and polling. They cover American skepticism of artificial intelligence — according to one poll, only 9 percent of Americans say it will do more good than harm to society — and consider what to make of former president Donald Trump’s gains on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in early Republican presidential primary polling.