mood is that you think creates an appetite for independent candidates in i way that hasn t been in the past. partisan gridlock. people are sick of it. they re sick of the fighting. i don t see this partisanship division being something we can continue. i think this younger generation, independents want transparency, we want accountability, we don t want the games back and forth between parties. there are there is a clear far right movement that wants to unravel our system of self-government. i think the extremes on the ends of the political spectrum in general have become far too influential. and i made the case to all elements of this coalition that either we were going to be steam rolled by these extremes, and our state and our country would continue to suffer, or we were going to come together and form a coalition centered around our core ideals, those in the of independence. really interesting to hear from all three of the