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People in, we can do it. you know texas. can he realistically bring texes too democrats in 2020? >> he realistically truly can bring texas to democrats in 2020. i absolutely believe that. and i believe it because with presidential turnout, if that turnout, if 2020 turnout had been in place in 2018, beto would be the u.s. senator from texas right now that he sought to be. and with they turnout that will be inspired by virtue of the fact its a presidential race and particularly if we have a texan ...

Operative about betos campaign. he snts an all caps exclamation point text pointing out that beto does not have a delegate tracking operation and this is a guy who appears to be repeating the mistakes made in 2018, thinking he can ride by on his charisma. >> both of you stick around. wendy davis, thank you for joining us and for your perspective on this state. well talk more about orourke and his race. also how the most popular plane in the world will not be flying today. how the grounding of th...

Hes going to be meeting up with junior and senior high school government class students. obviously, back in texas, he made it a ritual as he crossed 254 counties. theres 99 of them here in iowa. this is a start. hes in the southeastern most county here in the state. this is a place that donald trump won by 16 points. barack obama won it four years earlier by 16. and there is the former congressman as youll see now. >> this is what you call a little -- >> it will be his second stop. >> we jumped ...

That school building where hell be talking with students there in government class, right? >> yeah. hes going to be meeting with junior and seniors here at ft. madison high school. the government class here. obviously, we dont get the chance to go in but this is the second stop in what will be many. hell be heading up to burlington and making several cedar rapids tomorrow. dubuque on saturday. >> that was quite a seven minutes of television, my friend. aaron blake and betsy woodruff are back. or...

Bring to this field? heres what he had to say. >> you said a lot of positive things about the rest of the democrats running. why is the guy who lost to ted cruz in 2018 the best guy to take on trump in 2020? what do you say to people who make that argument? >> its not about me or trump or even about the other candidates. its about people. and so i put myself before the people who will make this decision. >> i dont like to interrupt candidates but i did interrupt orourke there and pressed him on ...

Campaign event in iowa that happened just a couple minutes ago. watch. >> hi. how are you? nice to see you. good morning. >> orourke will be criss-crossing the caucus state on a road trip. and speaking roofds, he posed in front of one on the cover of the "vanity fair" issue. a glossy 17-page spread that dropped overnight. orourke telling the magazine, man, i am just born to be in it, adding, this is the fight of our lives. lets get to garrett haake in iowa where orourke just finished his first e...

In a statement that you would, as a politician, be advised not to run a campaign that looks like that. and he managed to connect with people in a way that was really rare and quite magical honestly. and i watched him this morning as he stood in that coffee shop in iowa on his very first campaign stop. and i saw him doing the very thing there that we observed him doing in texas and that hell do throughout the campaign. >> you talk about texas. you talk about how he pulled in republican support to...

After he told you he was definitely not going to run for president. >> yeah, things moving quickly out here, hallie, from the definitive no to a definitive yes. what well see is going to be a grassroots campaign that looks like what we just saw in this coffee shop. dropping in, shaking hands, taking advantage of the fact he does not have a day job right now. can spend a lot of time on the ground talking about issues and taking questions. he took a half a dozen or so questions from the audience h...