It's like they've never done this before, and ditched without picking up their garbage from their constituents.
The campaign office is closed now. These are now "someone else's problems," much like every other problem that doesn't affect them.
For myself, at 19 I stubbornly believed that my judgement was the best judgement. I felt the same way at 16, too. I had to get to about 25 or 26 to realize that I was mostly a hormonal idiot. Every 10 years I look back and go "huh, that was naive".
I just hope all of this works out for the OP. As a father of a daughter, it feels scary, but my fear doesn't help anyone.
Right, the Texas tattoo would be my first priority, too ๐