 And Mark Halpern writes this in his newsletter today. His own team, from the lowest levels to the highest, see little hope, per the Washington Post. Overwhelmingly, a majority of senior campaign staff are despondent and don't see a path, said a Democratic strategist familiar with the conversations. That would probably be because of the lack of a path. So his closest aides around him are like, we can't win. What are we doing?