rick perry would have considered these laws for be wildly extreme let alone your former boss. so it is totally off the rails here. and we could talk later about our friend matthew dowd who is running for lieutenant governor who i saw last night. but it is a crazy time down here. i love texas and texans. and there are a large number of texans who are discombobulated, disconcerted, upset, baffled, angry that their chosen representatives behaving this way that doesn't reflect the vote of the majority of texans. and so you are starting to see them lose support. i wouldn't say crater, but they look vulnerable. and that is all part of the story here. incredibly fascinating and scary. >> part of the reason that they are cratering, and i think that they are, i think that they are held up by these extreme factions, is this extreme excrement isn't popular. overturning 85% of all abortions in texas doesn't have the majority support among republicans. letting kids die by banning mask mandates is not popular and that state had one of the worst covid crises of the delta variant. and the vot