give his last rally of the campaign. garrett, you've been covering this campaign closely. there was a sense i think they had run out of gas a little bit a few weeks ago. there was a sort of rising sense from the cruz folks they had this in the bag. what's the mood now? >> yeah, republicans were very confident at the start of early voting here and really through the first week of early voting. then republicans i've talked to have seen that confidence tail off here a little bit. and the o'rourke campaign has gotten another surge of energy as they have been traveling around the state holding these big rallies. first in far flung places across the state like amarillo, lubbock you can, home of texas tech. the last few cities where they need to run up the score, in austin, houston, san antonio, el paso, o'rourke's hometown. the thing i've been trying to square since we've been down here, if you look at the polling in this race, every poll has favored ted cruz. in some place by a wide margin. it doesn't square with the enthusiasm i've seen. i've covered both candidates at