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Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke demured the loss of Latino voters to Republicans because then-candidate Joe Biden set up shockwaves in 2020 that are still felt now.

Learn more going forward. i thank you all for being here today. thanks. >> of course as so many others he was in las vegas. soon as he heard about the shooting called his wife in el paso to make sure that his wife and the kids were all okay. they are okay. joining us now is the former mayor of san antonio, julian castro, thank you so much for joining us. our hearts go out to everyone in texas, especially el paso right now. as an american and as a texan, what is your reaction first of all, to thi...

Joining us from washington with a look at axios am, the co-founder of axios. mike, good morning to you. >> good morning. and first things first, happy friday! >> happy friday. >> the axios "1 big thing" is the live streaming election. just a few minutes ago on the show, we saw beto orourke getting his dental exam, not the first time representative orourke has overshared on his instagram. we saw him doing laundry during the campaign, we saw a little more laundry than we needed to see. we saw eliz...

The real questions for democrats is who they have to take on trump, assuming he runs. their field may look like the gop redux in 2016. everybody and anybody may be running. you got senators booker, warren, sanders, gillibrand, harris, representative orourke who got beat in texas. democrats are high on him for one reason or another. they are talking about him running in 2020. didnt give back all the money he raised. he could use that for 2020. political reports that bernie sanders is lining up pr...

Looks a little favorable. the real questions for democrats is who they have to take on trump, assuming he runs. their field may look like the gop redux in 2016. everybody and anybody may be running. you got senators booker, warren, sanders, gillibrand, harris, representative orourke who got beat in texas. but democrats are very high on him for one reason or another, and theyre talking about him running in 2020. certainly didnt give back all the money he raised, so he could use that for 2020. pol...

Was one of the best i ever served with. the first v.a. secretary in the history of the v.a. to make reducing suicide his number one clinical priority. we lose 20 veterans a day. thats a conservative estimate. every single day by their own hand. the majority of whom have not been able to get into a v.a., for whatever reason did not go to a v.a. by focusing on it, calling it out, providing the resources necessary to connect those veterans with care, were going to save more lives. im grateful they ...

Working with my republican colleagues across the aisle, never allowing the perfect to become the enemy of the good. ensuring that we find consensus, common ground to make that common cause to do the common good expanding mental health care access for veterans. improving security and the flow of trade at our ports of entry. protecting public plans in the chihuahuan government. we see each other as not republicans, as democrats, as americans, texans, human beings. im confident theres no stopping u...

Stand up for the institutions that make us so strong in the first place. so i think we need to vigorously defend the freedom of the press. we need to call out violations not just in this country, in countries like mexico, one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist. the killing of khashoggi by the saudi arabian government, there has to be consequences. there has to be accountability. there has to be justice. this is our chance to lead on one of the most important issues to our democracy ...

They even make it this far. i think hes trying to play upon the worst impulses of this country instead of speaking to our ambitions, hopes, dreams, those things that we can achieve if we all come together. i dont know what hes trying to do, i just know the task left to us which is to be the answer to that. our courage, our confidence, our strength. that has to define us going forward. its up to us. i love that we have the chance to do it and i love all of the excitement, the enthusiasm, the ener...

This state though it is not okay, it is perfectly legal for you to be fired based on your sexual orientation. in this state though we have 30,000 kids in the foster care system, in child protective services until recently was so under funded and under manned that you had kids at cps offices sleeping under and on top of the desks. in texas by law you can be too gay to adopt one of those kids into your loving household. we need a senator thats going to stand up for the full civil rights of every s...