suburban voting mom that there is a reason why someone should have an ak-47 and walk around with it in walmart. i have to tell you, gun gloat and race beto have been fantastic. he s been absolutely candid. what really works with american politics, it worked with barack obama. sometimes you say something a little extreme. if you re passionate about it, the american people will become attracted to it. i was so happy to hear, whether or not it is my politics, it was so nice to hear a democrat not dance around this issue. yeah, i m taking your guns. i m tired of seeing people get shot up in walmarts. the people who are dying right now, the people who are afraid in the suburbs, they want to hear somebody do something. even if they don t think everything get away with it, they want to hear that level of passion. at the end of the day when we get to a general election, i don t think beto will be the nominee or on the ticket.
what do you make of that? at that point i don t think beto was even running for. when the you want made that speech earlier in the week, a lot of us warned people and said, whatever he says in that speech, don t make that the story, because we ve been through this before. trump is trump, we know his obsessions, how he grapples with major news stories and tragedies, and look at his actual statements to people and his tweets, not a speech that his speechwriters wrote and he read from a teleprompter. i m not surprised at all and that he talked about the things that obsess him, and one of which is crowd size. that s who donald trump is.
had to and especially here things over beto o rourke clearly trying to somehow bring back his flagging campaign. the writing has been on the wall since his maiden speech coming down the escalator describing anyone who is surprised. as part of this problem right now, including members of the media asked, do you think the president is racist? jesus christ, course he is racist. laura: inflammatory statements like that, democrats backlash in the next election joining me now cofounder of real politics, tom bevan, tom, beto has zero chance to become president. i would say now the citizen of texas from a less than zero chance of becoming president. what is your assessment here? i don t think beto is in any jeopardy of winning the democratic nomination or presidency, but his rhetoric which is so over-the-top comparing the trump
on the shooting, as we said, way over the top. we were not going to put this in the whole show but we kind of had to and especially here things like beto o rourke clearly trying to somehow bring back his flagging campaign. the writing has been on the wall since his maiden speech coming down the escalator describing anyone who is surprised is part of this problem right now, including members of the media asked, do du think the president is racist? jesus christ, of course, he is racist. laura: with inflammatory statements like that, democrats backlash in the next election. joining me now cofounder of real politics, tom bevan. tom, beto has zero chance to become president. i would say now, as a citizen of texas, he has a less than zero chance of becoming president. what is your assessment here? i don t think beto is in any jeopardy of winning the democratic nomination orbecomin,
and early weeks of the campaigning on the left, there is a leftward tilt to the party that some more centrist candidates are afraid of. last word, nia? i do think beto is a little difference. i think voters want to see a sense of urgency and some sort of vision. this idea you can wait and see and go on a road trip and do a bunch of navel gazing, that isn t going to sit well with voters at this point. we ll see if beto gets in or biden gets in. this idea you can wait on the sidelines and game everything out. these folks are hungry. we saw what happened in 2018. all those voters flooding to the polls. they want to channel that energy and they want to channel it now. errol, nia, david, thank you all very much. so talking about potential democratic candidates for president. are they feeling the pressure to jump into the race and soon? we ll ask a governor who is right there. governor jay insley of washington state who is rumored to run, next.