democracy. so republicans have only themselves to blame of how they ended up in this place and people like the congressman who decided not to run for e reel reelection is a unicorn and understands like many republicans that that is now the party all in 100% the party is the party of what trump represents. >> does the departure of lawmakers like gonzalez open the door for another qanon and big lie believing radical just to step right in? >> well, i think even if he hadn't left he would probably have been beaten by a qanon, n non-science, fnon-truth. that's what the republicans face today. the republicans, i think about this. they're not afraid of donald trump and what donald trump would do or whether or not he'd send out a statement or whatever. they're afraid of their own voters and that's really what this is about.