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Primary, so it will be interesting to see how he rolls up his sleeves and gets in there and fights for votes. where there are voters who -- when he was running for senate, he had a united front against ted cruise. now that vote is split up and you have 13 candidates. all trying to divide the same pie up. it will be interesting to see how he maneuvers especially since he doesn't really like to get that partisan. >> thank you for that reporting. valuable to hear, as was michael scheerer. thank you both gentlemen for coming on tonight. as we look at the brand new candidacy of beto o'rourke. pre...

Demographic there that could really help them in standing out in what is already a crowded field. you're seeing them do that in different ways. beto o'rourke, while he's not announced anything. he's been e-mailing people to talk about those issues. he hasn't been active on social media. you're seeing different ways of doing that. for some of the candidates this is the way to reach that audience here in austin. >> thank you. i want to bring in congressional reporter for the washington post and new york times white house correspondent michael scheerer, amy klobuchar was at south by southwest tod...

For a final answer. joe biden. michael, your newspaper reports, biden is 95% committed to running according to sources familiar with the discussions. what's stopping him? >>. >> i think the first major hurdle that biden had to get over with is a family hurdle. we're told that's now past, his children, his wife. everyone in the family wants him to run. that was probably the biggest thing he needed to get past. there are still questions. can he raise the kind of money that some of these younger politicians who have tapped into the real motivated and passionate liberal base of the party. they're ...

Himself a sui generous figure or is he a kiclintonian figure? >> i addressed some of this. the "r" word, realignment, is something that people are talking about. there was a reagan realignment, and basically you could argue that this is finally the end of the reagan realignment, and there's a kind of obama realignment now. so the question is, is this realignment inheritable? one of the things michael discovered with all of the work that he did with the numbers crunchers is that they started to find in the last six or seven weeks of the campaign these supposedly undecided people who didn't like...

I just remember that my dad used to repair television sets when i was a little, little kid for extra money. and so we -- i guess we were one of the first people on our block in our neighborhood to have a television set. >> oh, really? >> back in the early '50s. i know the same thing happened then that happens now. if there was a really funny sid caesar sketch on shows, that was the conversation by, i guess, the sparklet's cooler. that was the conversation. so television has always had that draw. and of course, television hurt movies, you know, 60 years ago because it was the first time movies ...