Vanan Murugesan

And if he succeeds, you're going to start to see, I think, more Republicans feeling emboldened, perhaps to try to chart their own course, because you do get to a point any time when you're in a political party where the national environment is going south on you, it becomes everything.

Every member, especially on the incumbent side, every incumbent for themselves.

There's no longer there's no more team player.

It is survival of the fittest or survival of the of the of fittest might be the wrong way of the of the most pragmatists or whatever you want to call it.

But the point is, is everybody kicks into survival mode and we may be in there.

So, look, with that and you've seen this term, right, there was a new, you know, so look, number one, my top five list, top five.

Senate seats most likely to flip.

And the big news on my list this week is there's not going to be a single Republican seat, a Democratic-held seat on my list.

And the only one that comes close is Michigan.

But I will tell you in a minute why I have no longer put Michigan on that list.

But number one continues.

And in fact, I think it's number one and there's actually some space now.

And that is North Carolina.

I just saw a recent poll that had Cooper up 18 points.

Do I think he's up 18 points?

I don't.

But the fact is,

It seems as if the gap is spreading.

It is not closing.

Michael Watley, the former RNC chair, was already trying to do something that I think was quite hard to go directly from being a chair of a national party to try to win a Senate seat.