congresswoman and incoming san mateo county supervisor jackie speier. jackie, thanks for your time today. >> great to be with you, kristen. >> i'm sure you've been trying to wrap your head around all the results. and, look, it would be easy to chalk it up to harris as a candidate. maybe her truncated campaign, some of the economic headwinds. but. but not when you look at what's happened nationwide and even here in california, reportedly. right along the bluest of the blue liberal beacon, when you look at the way california shifted right in everything from props to the senate race to the local recalls, what is your takeaway? >> well, my takeaway is that we lost badly and we as a party, need to do some serious soul searching when you lose your base. and that's what we're seeing. our base has eroded. you know, we were always known as being the party for, you know, working class americans. we were always there for, you know, labor workers, for low income workers and those people have abandoned the democratic party in part because the label that the republica