“I've always said from the beginning of this that it's not going to be easy to win. It's going to be very difficult because of the structural factors in California, but it's not impossible. And given the seriousness of our predicament and how much I think the whole country depends on a successful, growing, thriving, leading California, then we should go for it. I always say California means to America what America means to the world.”

Exactly. All of those things are true. But so I've always said from the beginning of this that it's not going to be easy to win. It's going to be very difficult because of the structural factors in California, but it's not impossible. And given the seriousness of our predicament and how much I think the whole country depends on a successful, growing, thriving, leading California, then we should go for it because getting things back in a common sense direction is just a really important thing. I always say California means to America what America means to the world. And so this matters. If you look at the numbers, some people look at their voter registration numbers and they say Democrats outnumber Republicans two to one. And that is true. But when you look at actual voting, the gap is a little bit closer. Over the last 20 years where you haven't had Republicans elected, pretty much the average Republican vote has been just over 40%. So it's been like a 60-40 split. Obviously, that's not close, but the gap is perhaps not as wide as some people might think. But then you look at a couple of factors that I really think are different this year. First of all, there's a dissatisfaction with the way things are going that…