party, to decide who the winner will be of their contested primary for the republican party's presidential nominated contest this year. and you know all that, but it's worth just sort of going back to brass tacks for a second. in a two party system, each party is important, right? in a two party system, the relative strength, skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health of each party is at least a little bit important in every single state in the country, even in states that are dominated by one party or the other, the health and the capacity of each party matters. it's particularly crucial in swing states, though, where one party doesn't dominate, and in places where it's likely gonna be a close race between the republican nominee and the democratic nominee and the general election this fall, it is particularly important how healthy the state parties are on both sides. and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it's a pretty familiar list.