Ruben Gallego

But you're seeing this all over the country in different parts of the different parts of the country and different, you know, regions altogether.

Right.

Yeah, it's not that the vacuum frees you up so you could be the leader, but the vacuum is there, so therefore you don't have to check in with the leader in the sense that, like, I don't have to check my messaging with Team Biden because Team Biden is not there.

There is nobody there there, right?

And not that I wouldn't have, that I would do that necessarily, but I think a lot of people...

Our team players, Democrats are team players, not just under Biden, but under, you know, President Obama, under President Clinton, even or even under, you know, VP Harris's race or Secretary Clinton's race.

We are team players.

So, you know, we don't want to necessarily.

hurt our own leadership because that leadership is the brand.

So we don't actually move too far left or right.

We don't experiment.

We don't kind of go away from the party line because then it actually is going to potentially hurt people in our coalition and the coalition leader, which tends to be the president or the leader of

you know, the director of party at that point, whoever the nominee is.

Now, we don't have that right now, right?

100% true.

And I think what that does is does make a lot of us feel a lot more liberated to kind of just test things out.

And the other thing is that we don't, especially younger members of the House and the Senate, or just younger political leaders, I think a lot of us just aren't stuck on orthodoxy.

I don't believe that I can only have conservative Democratic positions, moderate centric positions, or liberal Democratic positions.

I think I can mix them all up because I think that's how the American public is, at least that's what I've seen.

And I will pick and choose what I think is good for the people I'm trying to represent.