Beto O'Rourke

It's great to be with you.

Thanks for having me on.

It's one of the most exciting times, at least in my lifetime, especially if you're a Democrat in the state of Texas.

You have a generational talent in James Tallarico.

who not only won the primary for the U.S.

Senate in Texas, but won it against another generational talent in Jasmine Crockett.

I think this contest only made him a stronger candidate.

It allowed him to introduce himself not just to the voters in Texas who are the most important constituency in this, but also to the rest of the country.

The Texas Senate race is by definition

a national race.

If Tallarico wins this in November, he could very well be the 51st vote in the United States Senate.

So the position that he's in right now, I don't know, could be any better.

And you contrast that, David, with the Republican Senate primary where John Cornyn and Ken Paxton

and their allies have spent more than $90 million.

I think it's the most expensive Senate primary in world history.

$90 million tearing each other apart only to have to face each other again in a runoff to that primary on the 26th of May.

There's two more months of this unless, as you alluded to, one of them drops out at the behest of the president.

But I don't see either one of them doing that, even if Trump

demands it so tallarico has the opportunity over the coming two months to consolidate support to go out and earn the votes of jasmine crockett's constituency and the people who are most excited about her and to go into the final stretch into november in a very strong position in addition and this has never happened before at least not in the last 50 years

There is a Democrat running for every single state house seat in Texas.