So explain to us why you felt the best option for you right now to do that was to step down less than a month before the midterms.

Yeah.

Thanks, Peter, for having me on.

Appreciate it.

Um, I'm a Democrat.

I can't imagine a scenario where I, uh, for the rest of my life I'll be a Democrat.

Um, and I am declaring my support of the independent, Seth Bodnar.

Let me, let me-

There was a lot going on there even before the primary.

Yeah, you know, certainly before the primary and primaries are always, I think, for both parties or all parties, primaries are rough because it's friends who are taking sides and, you know, feelings get hurt and opinions change.

It's a rough time.

But after the primary, I think there were a lot of people who did not see Alani Bankhead as a viable candidate.

And up until this week, or late, late last week, when I really in earnest started making this decision, so many Democrats... really didn't see Alani as a viable candidate.

She wasn't, she wasn't raising money.

Um, and there were some questions about her and, and, um, I was trying to, um, support the, the democratic nominee and do what I felt like was my role as the chair and the leader of, of the party.

And do you really think is there that much of a struggle going on here, an identity crisis or what's kind of your take on what's going on in the Democratic Party?