and herschel johnson from georgia, who is sort of a someone that's meant to keep southerners in line in terms of this ticket. he was a massive slaveholder and someone who really had had been a pro douglass guy for a long time. so there was an expectation that maybe they could bring along some other democrats. but the southerners convene elsewhere and they decide to nominate john c breckinridge, who was the sitting vice president under buchanan. so a different democratic ticket. and they their their vice president, while candidate lane is a is a someone from oregon who actually came from indiana. he is very pro-slavery. he ends up being very pro confederate or oregon or actually not really that in favor of him, but he ends up being the vice presidential candidate on that ticket. so the democrats are split. this is really devastating for a lot of democrats. there are all kinds of efforts to try to rejoin the democratic party. there are even some people who try to put in substitute democrats. there are all kinds of schemes to to get roger tawney, the chief justice of the supreme court i