And look, at the end of the day, I knew that the base that I had already built of getting to know the state at a deep way, getting to know the players in the state, this was. I went from nobody knew who I was really, statewide, to be able to defeat a guy who had been in office for 50 years, who had won 18 and 19 elections, who raised $300 million, was the chairman of the most powerful committee in the Senate, the Banking Committee, had all the union support in the world. There's a guy who the media fawned over every single day, and we kept him to 46% of the vote. So we whooped him pretty good. (16:38–16:57)
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