Leigh Ann Caldwell

Yeah.

So we'll see if that plays out.

I was told that obviously a lot of these people are still making their decisions, but serving, you know, and the Republicans that I some of the Republicans I talked to, they were like, look, don't don't.

Don't make this a a that most of these people are from safe seats, really, or maybe that second or third tier competitive seat.

But it is an indictment on what it's like to serve in Congress right now.

are you going to put up?

If you have any sort of familial strife or a member is sick or there's things going on in your family that's not perfect or your life that's not perfect, why would you do this?

When the job is fun, when you're successful, when you're passing legislation, you can overcome that stuff, but then you start to weigh things differently.

And, you know, I'm told that like the Texas Republicans are and of course, the California Republicans are just pissed.

They are mad about the redistricting effort at the White House and Johnson.

Yes.

Yes, they are not standing up for them, especially on the redistricting effort, even though some of these seats remain safer for Republicans.

People don't like their new but their new districts.

You have to for new with new lines and meet new people and fundraise.

Totally.

Totally.

And one member from a swing district, you know, said that they're going to have to raise tens of millions of dollars for, you know, they're in a big media market, whatever.

Right.

You know, they just said that their race could be a 60 million dollar race for not, you know, total, but for a district, which is which is mind boggling these days.

It's like no media market.