 of office when you're a lame duck and they know that you you can't run again you don't have the ability to affect them down ballot your your ability to influence goes out the window in a lot of respects well in this case now biden is hurting people down ballot so all these other down ballot democrats running for senate running for the house are being hurt by him which is then costing him more and more of his credibility influence and quote-unquote power