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Candidate quality really matters. republicans say, okay, yeah, we had a weak candidate here, a weak candidate in alabama. they're having a hard time recruiting quality candidates because they don't want to compete in a difficult election cycle. >> it's a lot harder today. >> and where democrats really have an advantage, they were able to recruit conor lamb, an excellent candidate. now their position got much easier. somebody with the military background who's young and so on. republicans have been in this position before where they got cory gardner and others who were young, forward looking. d...

Immigration issue to being a character issue. >> ben in. >> if you're saying that ted cruz has a character issue, i beg of you, show proof of that. when he was running for the senate as the outsider in texas, if you look at what he said on immigration and border security and what he said about how we have to be humane and tough on the border and we can't give up amnesty automatically, that is what he said in his own words. so there is no flip-flop from that. the same thing he said about the gang of eight bill. >> what about matt's point on character? popularity matters. when you are the butt o...