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Raising money is one way they are similar. >> similarity number two, energizing the young people. you have the data to back this up. >> if you look at the 2018 bid for beto orourke, he won the larger share of the pie between 18-44-year-olds. most democrats nationally, many more of their support is coming from 45 and older. with beto orourke, it was split evenly. barack obama won in 2008 because he was able to win young voters overwhelmingly, despite losing among older voters. >> three, ability t...

Texas. sanders is going to beat him up on that. you cant get passed who bernie sanders is he is a socialist and thats what democrats are looking for in this cycle. steve: because beto is from texas i cant tell you how many times i heard yesterday texas could be in play. if you look at the "new york times" headline it says why texas is nearing battleground status its not just about beto. the week row. 2020. democratic hopes about turning texas blue. do you put much stock in that. >> i really dont...

The midterm we were asking, oh, is beto running. and now leading out with "vanity fair" and here we are talking about him. i think he certainly popped out on scene. we did a focus group recently in wisconsin with a lot of swing voters, we show him a picture of beto, to a person its like doesnt ring a bell. i want to do a formula, tpm, television, polls, money. that amount of coverage immediately says im going to 6 to 7 points and hes rising in the poll. so it becomes a little bit of a service fu...

That is if we were to basically look at we think hes this young cool, hip, progressive. it is true does he tend to pull at least in 2018 a larger amount of his support foreign policy those under the age of 45. 48% of his supporters were under 45 versus the average of the 2018 democratic candidates where it was only 39%. so he pulls from younger people which could pull from the sanders file. >> he can drive turnout is. that true? >> this is a tricky thing to figure out and its a little complicate...

The senate when he went up against ted cruz in the mid term elections, an election that he lost but it was very close. it was a three-point loss. he talked about that today about how he believes he can get people on his side, energize those young voters and get people on what he believes is needed in terms of change for the white house. you know, one of the things i specifically asked him when he finished and wrapped up after talking to voters, i asked him how do you plan to differentiate yourse...

Which is both substantive but also about ensuring -- having a real vision for the country. you know, he put together a coalition in texas that democrats havent seen before. in a very long time, as you know, he got millennials out. he had strong, strong support from the latino community. he put together a diverse coalition to support him and to vote in numbers that havent come out in a midterm in texas for many, many years. >> how do you see a run for a democrat running for a senate seat statewid...

Which is both substantive but also about ensuring -- having a real vision for the country. you know, he put together a coalition in texas that democrats havent seen before. in a very long time, as you know, he got millennials out. he had strong, strong support from the latino community. he put together a diverse coalition to support him and to vote in numbers that havent come out in a midterm in texas for many, many years. >> how do you see a run for a democrat running for a senate seat statewid...

Being for stripping health care away from like 20 million americans. and they got crushed in the mid term. now, there is an issue of the environment. more and more americans realize something has to be done. now, what is proposed in the new green deal really is only marginally about the environment in many respects. its about centralizing power in washington, redistributing wealth. i believe that there is a bipartisan approach to whether it is cap and trade, market oriented, extending the incent...

All know that this is a very bad precedent. they ought to just stand up and take control. i dont know what they are going to look back on in their career f. they do not stop this -- they are going to stop this resolution. if they dont stop this, they are handing a very dangerous precedent to the next president who may be philosophically totally different than they are. of course, they ought to pass this resolution and override the president. >> well see. you have been very vocal on the democrats...

They both ran before. we though them on a national stage. that doesnt mean a kamala harris or beto orourke or amy klobuchar cant come out of nowhere and impress people. it does suggest the uphill struggle they have and where theyre starting from and i think thats kind of important. look, iowa became important in 1976 because jimmy carter, a little known former governor from georgia, worked the state until everybody there knew him even if we, the national media, didnt know him. can easily see som...