one man who hopes the benefit from this potential electoral sea change is matt castelli. e democratic primary for new york's 21st congressional new york district. he joins us live now. matt, it's good to have you with us. i want to get your thoughts on the special election results and new york 19, which borders part of the district that you are running to represent. we talked about this earlier in the program. democrat pat well won by hammering home the message protecting choice. your reaction to his win and how you see his results affecting your race? >> thank you, ayman, great to be with you. the new york 19th race was a great signal for our race, both as a potential bellwether for the midterms, i think it is also a bellwether for our race against congresswoman elise stefanik in upstate new york 2021. well we saw on tuesday and in terms here in that special election, was that we saw voters in this special election in your 19, which is adjacent to near 21, and our democratic primary, which as you pointed out, we had high turnout from democrats within this primary then in

her opponent, moderate democrat matt castelli and he joined the cia shortly after september 11th helpingrrorists and protecting itself and he was in two national security counsels and congressional nominee for new york's north country mike castelli. tell us what happened after january 6th. >> thank you, nicole. great to be with you here. after january 6th we really saw this attack against our country and i knew that i needed to step up to honor my oath to the constitution after watching someone like elise stefanik betray hers. she helped to spread the big lie. we've all seen that stefanik has become the defender in chief of january 6th and she turned her back on our democracy, and i didn't spend my career defending our country from violent extremists only to see folks like stefanik embraced here at home. we need someone who is focusing on putting our country before our party and focusing on the security and strength and that's what my career is all about and that's what our campaign is all about. >> i spent my career in politics sort of in the years after september 11th and you did somet