Do you all
think that this field will be smaller
before people vote in August, that you'll have some candidates
say, look,
I know I'm on the ballot, but I'm dropping out of this
race and I'm throwing my support behind someone else.
You would expect
that the field would shrink a little bit,
but also, this is an open seat.
So it's kind of a different ballgame.
You know, why not keep going?
We've got candidates
that in polling have been hovering around 1%.
You know, single digits essentially.
And they're still in it.
And I can't help but think of 2022.
It was a U.S.
Senate race, against Ron Johnson.
You had the Democratic candidates all drop out
all at once and endorse, Mandela Barnes,
who is now running for governor.
But I really don't expect to see anything like that
this go around.
But especially if you see yourself as kind of
standing out from the pack of, like,
occupying a lane to yourself, why not kind of keep running
in that way?
To your point, will there be then
when people do start dropping out?
And I do
think we're going to see some before the primaries,
but there's going to be some trading, like
there's going to be back door discussions.
I know everyone hates talking about
how those happened in politics.
You know, to trade my support for you.
And so that'll be really interesting to see
who wants to kind of give it up this time, in exchange
for something else on the line.