Seventy doesn't seem like a big number. It's two months in change. It's a speed the average person drives on Interstate 85. It's less than the number of players Clemson uses in a rout.

But in politics that number is simultaneously gigantic and miniscule at the same time. It seems huge because November appears so distant in the future from the end of August, but it is small because there is a lot of work to do between now and then.

I am looking forward to these 70 days. Covid-19 has definitely changed how I planned to campaign, but that doesn’t mean I am not going to working to listen and meet as many of you as I can.