palmer beginnings is a reporter for t if. it seems if the only time a democrat ever goes to texas is to raise money. yeah. it is bit of an atm state, is it not? well we re seeing first of all, the udall development is quite interesting. he was slated to attend this $15,000 a plate fund-raiser with president obama in his home state of colorado this afternoon. then to hear this morning that he s going to kind of do a switchup and stay in washington, d.c. it s it definitely is another chapter in senator udall s kind of hemming and hawing relationship with whether or not he wants to be seen on the trail with president obama. back in january he had a memorable back and forth on live camera with whether or not he thought that president obama was a political liability even. and so then he was slated to, you know, to do this fund-raiser