Ron Klain: “We are in a mess here. The administration dropped the ball here.”

The way to beat down Trump is to unite the Democratic Party, and he had lost the ability to do that.

I think he's absolutely up to the job. If you saw after the debate -- he had a bad night at the debate, I won't deny that. But after the debate, he gave an hour-long press conference. After the NATO Summit, where he talked about world…

I think the polls do show a very, very close midterm election as a whole. I think on inflation, look, prices are high and the President is working to bring them down.

So I don't think rallies have proved effective for candidates in the midterms. And so we're trying something different that we think will be effective.