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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 it's a presidential race and particularly if we have a texan on the ballot, i think texas is going to go to the blue column in 2020. mark my words. this is my p...

Operative about beto's 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. we'll talk more about o'rourke and his race. also how the most popular plane in the world will not be flying today. how the grounding of the boeing 737 max 8 and 9 is affecting flights. we'll bring you that frantic call when it all went...

He's 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. there's 99 of them here in iowa. this is a start. he's 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 you'll see now. >> this is what you call a little -- >> it will be his second stop. >> we jumped into this thinking o'rourke was getting out. this is what you call filling the airtime, gang, as...

That school building where he'll be talking with students there in government class, right? >> yeah. he's going to be meeting with junior and seniors here at ft. madison high school. the government class here. obviously, we don't get the chance to go in but this is the second stop in what will be many. he'll 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. o'rourke, obviously, wants to talk about why he's running and what he's running on. questions abou...

Bring to this field? here's 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? >> it's not about me or trump or even about the other candidates. it's about people. and so i put myself before the people who will make this decision. >> i don't like to interrupt candidates but i did interrupt o'rourke there and pressed him on this. two things he does uniquely bring to the table is his relative success in a red state and...