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And he just he bailed out.
Well, I want to see also what it does for candidate recruitment, because let's say I'm a state rep in Indiana and I'm in the minority forever and they've drawn a new they might draw the seats.
They might not.
They've drawn a new seat out of Indianapolis.
That's plus eight Trump or something.
Do I go for it?
That's what Joe Donnelly did when they got rid of his House seat in Kansas.
That was one of the reasons Republicans made it back down is Sharice Davids, who represents the Kansas City suburbs in in Kansas.
Those they've already tried to gerrymander her out there.
They were thinking of trying again.
She said, I'm just going to run for Senate in a good year for Democrats.
What are you going to do about it?
So I'm interested to see what sort of.
ambition you see from Democrats who, instead of looking at the nice big red map that Trump gives everybody with all the red counties that voted for him, if they look at the slightly less red map from these races and say, imagine a midterm where it's D plus eight, you would win this.
Do you want to try for it now?
I think that'll start happening over the next couple of months.
Oh, absolutely.
This was this was a real bet that he took.
I remember talking to Gavin people when he announced it because there was one poll.