neil: these are the bullet points. beto has that, knows his bullet points. >> not in the same way, but he doesn't have, you know, four years of having a base -- neil: you know, chris, i think republicans, though, underestimate beto at peril. >> i agree. neil: that was the consensus view, barack obama had only been a senator a couple of years, and, you know, the last guy who went on to lose a senate race and went on to win the presidential race was abraham lincoln. i am not comparing the two at all, but history has a way to have making fun -- >> it does, but if i'm cory booker or kamala harris, i'm really angry about the attention he's getting. the other people that are angry are texas democrats because he's spent more time campaigning in iowa than he did in texas. he did not help the democrats statewide in -- neil: he was very confident he could tip that state blue. >> well, there is a lot of reasons why what happened in texas in 2018 happened.