Ashley Lopez

And, you know, that's unfortunate in some ways because fewer voters participate in primaries.

It's like not as mixed, right?

There's not as many low propensity voters in primaries.

There's

not as much racial diversity.

These voters tend to be older, wealthier.

And as I mentioned, ideologically partisan people.

So what parties are doing right now is just creating a situation where fewer voters have sort of meaningful voting power when they come into November.

And North Carolina has been going down that road for a while, and they just sort of added another safe seat for the party.

I mean, all of this is dependent on how well Democrats do.

If this is like a wave election where it's like a plus 20 point swing in one direction, like that could, you know, this could all be null and void.

But those things don't tend to happen all the time.

Yeah.

And I just mentioned that these voters are older and wealthier.

And what does Congress look like?

Yeah, I mean, it is like it is very easy to see where this all leads.

And as Colin just mentioned, like this is another example of like one competitive seat where voters, at least in one region, had the ability to, you know, decide who controls Congress because, you know, so few seats decide what party has power in Congress.

You know, that was taken away from some voters.

But I will say, like the majority of American states don't have competitive seats.

United America, which this is like their hobby horse, they have been pushing for primary reform for years.