to run for congress are thinking maybe this is not my year and so in a tough time where you have a lot of republicans who are retiring because they have polling or they ve decided it s tough for them, they re not necessarily going to be replaced by three, four, five, different strong challengers, or strong folks who run for that contested primary on the republican side. like we saw in 18 on the democratic side where we had lots of contested rye mares because we had lots of democrats in these trying to challenge republicans who are excited to run for office. margie makes a great point here, too, the transformation of the party, think of the 101 members, thing about who s going to run for republican seat, who s motivated, lecture on the grassroots on the republican side, it s going to be a pro-trump american. unavoidably, that s the kind of person who s going to want to run in this environment, who s going to have a beat on an open republican primary if that s what you re facing. yo