Jen Psaki

She's a Democratic candidate for governor of Texas, looking to unseat Governor Greg Abbott.

Thank you for being with us tonight.

Nice to see you again.

Good to see you too, Ali.

Let's talk about this, because this happens every time there's an election in Texas.

They talk about how close the Democrats get.

They're going to be Democrats and the Democrats are going to do this to the Republicans.

And then the Republicans win.

I look at the Beto O'Rourke candidacy.

It was a strong candidacy.

Ted Cruz was a super flawed candidate who ran a bad campaign.

And yet Ted Cruz won.

How do you explain that and overlay that with the enthusiasm we're seeing from Democrats in this race?

So look at Tarrant County, 30 points, right?

And Republicans were saying, well, these special races, you know, turnout is smaller, outside money comes in.

But it was 30 points.

It wasn't even close.

And that's the thing that we're looking at here.

If you combine the voter frustration with the voter enthusiasm, voter turnout for advanced voting in Texas is way higher for Democrats.

It's way up.