i will say, chris christie has said. that chris christie said that he lost to joe biden. again, those two things are connected. because this entire thing is reverse engineered around absolving him from losing. a frankly getting his butt kicked and being a one term president and being a loser who, generally, are not looked on unfavourably in the american politics on both parties. one-term celebrates presidents are not celebrated. they are not the mark of the party afterwards. it's like, hey, forget about you, we want someone else. a huge part of the mid-owes that has been built here is precisely to inoculate him against that. >> yes, but you know, that's the amazing thing -- oh sorry. >> go ahead. and then i'll go with mona. >> it's not unlike a lost cause of the civil war. we didn't really [inaudible] step in this process. look, i don't think that mcconnell set is nearly adequate enough. mcconnell, on his own record, is saying that he would rip