Tim Kaine: “While we’ve always said these midterms are going to be tough — and we’ve got the underdog mentality about these midterms; we have from the very start — suddenly you’re seeing a lot of these races develop in ways where we’ve got paths to victory that folks didn’t think we had six months ago, because of the extreme nature of some of these candidates,” he said. “Now the extreme candidates aren’t just the odd exceptions. They’re starting to be the rule, in terms of who the R’s are putting up in this cycle.”