Cook Political Report editor Jennifer Duffy told The Hill she didn’t take Erickson’s potential candidacy too seriously, calling it “chest-thumping” likely made in a “fit of pique.” She said Erickson probably doesn’t have the name recognition within the state that he thinks he has and would have to drop his television gig and generally excel at a lot of the political operations outsiders tend to underestimate.

Erick son of Erick thinks too highly of himself, in other words.