but if he keeps the majority, that becomes less clear depending on how many seats are won and especially if donald trump sort of weighs in and says i want to get my agenda going, if he's the one that wins the presidential campaign. but there's a lot of up in the air on that. howard: yeah. he did back mike mike johnson early -- earlier, but they got kind of lukewarm, i think. i know the press loves these republicans in chaos stories, but if johnson does lose his gavel before the next election, aren't we in for another crazy period of a house without a speaker? >> certainly. and i think the mood from republicans is if this happens, they are going to be so down, feeling like they don't deserve the house. that's usually the sentiment i hear. why would voters put us back in if we can't even govern ourselves? but, you know, i think that's their -- there's also this mood where some of them will be more inclined to resign. it's a pretty kind of heavy feeling on the hill -- howard: been a number of resignations, yeah.