Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Who is beto orourke . Two years ago he was the darling of the democratic party. Tonight hes seeking to recapture that magic. In the aftermath of a mass shooting. He may sound the same. Were going to be there for one another, no matter what the cost. Thats how we bring this divided country back together again. But today beto orourke is a different candidate than he a weeks ago. Im going back there to be with my family. An alleged white supremacist. How does it change how you are running for president . Its changed me as a person to have someone come into this community and kill 22 people. To know that was inspired at least in part by the president. The killer using much of the same language the president uses in his manifesto. So el paso was the straw that broke the camels back . El paso made it all to cleo r to us the consequences of donald trump. Reporter the president ial hopeful stepped away from the trail to spend time in the place that raised him. To mourn and help his community heal. . That tragedy yesterday will not be allowed to define us. Reporter becoming a voice for the texas border town and an angry adversary to president trump. This president has sought to make this country afraid of places like el paso. Reporter his contempt for the president is palpable. This went viral on twitter. Is there anything your mind that the president can do now to make this any better . What do you think . You know the [ bleep ] hes been saying. Hes been calling mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. Members of the press, what the [ bleep ]. The president is a white supremacist. You believe that. I believe that. He makes the case far better than i could, right . If he calls clans men and nazis very fine people. When he sends 5,000 u. S. Service members to communities like this one to line up against kids who are at their most desperate and vulnerable after having traveled 2,000 miles and calls those kids animals and puts them in cages. Reporter we spent time with orourke and his family during that time away from the trail. What happened here broke your heart. Absolutely. Reporter it also seems that it pissed you off. Yeah. Reporter and it shows, for some people, the bulldog they want to see to defeat trump. I have for so long been talking about the racism of this president. But when 22 people are killed in your community, when youre attending funeral after funeral, yeah. That pisses you off and it makes it that much more urgent that we stop him. Reporter he seems to have discovered purpose and refound his footing in a president ial bid thats struggled to gain traction, reminding some why the onetime congressman captured so many for the run for the senate against ted cruz. He made an effort to travel to every county in texas. Just human beings. Real people making this happen. Reporter and expanded his brand nationally through social media, Live Streaming everything. Celebrities like Willie Nelson flocked to the congressman, even beyonce showing her support. But it wasnt enough. He narrowly lost in this deep red state where democrats havent won in decades. Tonights loss does nothing to diminish the way that i feel about texas or this country. [cheers and applause] im so [ bleep ] proud of you guys. Reporter even in defeat, admirers saw a promising president ial future. He appeared with president obama and on vanity fair. But after he announced, he floundered in the polls and faltered in debates. We sat down with orourke and a group of texas voters, all undecided. Can i ask you a question . We still like, in the democratic debates, is beto being polite . If youre toe to toe with trump, how are you going to do this . We need a bulldog in there. Absolutely. This idea that you can release a canned attack line that you have rehearsed, that stuff is not me. I want to do a better job. I really do. But at some point, what is success like for you . And success is winning the nomination. Success is defeating trump. Reporter success for Robert Francis orourke may not have been a birthright but it was the expectation. He was a child of privilege. His mother a successful businesswoman and his father a politician and power broker. He was brash. He, you know, was not shy about speaking his mind. Reporter fluent in spanish, the father gave his son the nickname beto. Young beto would choose his own path. The two still keep in touch. We were interested in skating, skateboarding. We were into punk music. Reporter in high school he joined a Hacking Group called the cult of the dead cow, where he ran a bulletin board. He felt like an outcast, like he didnt fit in. Cult of the dead cow as it was known, provided a sense of can community. Reporter at 15 he left el paso for an allmale boarding school in virginia, going on to columbia ufrt Columbia University in new york. There he played in a punk band. Check this out. Four guys in a 1978 plymouth satellite station wagon, with our amplifiers, two changes of clothes between the four of us. Reporter but at 25, the pull of el paso led him home. The month after he returned he was arrested for drunk driving. Police reports indicate he tried to leave the scene which he denies. He discussed it with ellen degeneris. That mistake did not define me. I was able to go on and do these things thats a function that im a white man. Reporter he met amy sanders, whom he would eventually marry. They have three children. In 2001, tragedy struck. His father was killed in a cycling accident. I hope im living up to the expectation that he set for me. I miss him terribly. Every day. Reporter in 2005, orourke decided to run for city council and won. He would go on to be elected to congress in 2013. A prep schooler turned punk rocker turned politician, you may call it the many reinventions of Robert Francis orourke. Hes back on the campaign trail, pledging to serve the underserved communities. Last week he went to mississippi where i. C. E. Detained almost 700 immigrants earlier this month. Im going to tell their stories. Im going to make sure the rest of this country understands whats happening in our name. Reporter but as he travels the country, his love for his state is so evident that one of the biggest papers in texas wrote an editorial asking him to stay at home and run for senate, challenging republican john cornyn. You can run for president later. Its not a matter of age, its a matter of this moment. Weve never been tested like were being tested right now. The peril has never been greater. Reporter if you couldnt beat ted cruz here. Right. Reporter what makes you think you can beat donald trump . Texas. In 2018, a state that had been 50th in voter turnout. Reporter coming close is nice. Yep. The other thing you need to know about texas is there are 38 Electoral College votes in this state. I can win those 38 Electoral College votes. Its that movement, its that candidate that it will take to beat donald trump. Reporter accustomed to the role as the outsider, beto orourke is also at this moment a long shot, in a crowded field of democratic contenders. A citys heartbreak refocussed and reenergized his campaign. Its up to him now to rescue it. And a reminder. Abc news and you knunivision wit the next debate the second week of september with George Stephanopoulos and linsey davis and jorge ramos. Up next, despite physical challenges, this athletes proving nothing is impossible. Lets do it. Come on. This summer, add a new member to the family. Hurry in and lease the glc 300 suv for just 419 a month with credit toward your first months payment at the mercedesbenz summer event. Going on now. 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At 4 foot 4 inches tall, misty diaz Bench Presses more than 100 pounds. She dominates in both the gym and on the spartan field, completing more than 65 spartan races to date. Im just these are some of my most recent Obstacle Course world championships. She is an absolute force, but when she was born, doctors never thought shed even be able to walk. I had most of my organs on the outside of my body. Misty was born with spina bifida. Spina bifida means split spine. So for my case, my spine was completely exposed at l5. What did the doctors tell your parents when you were born . To let nature its course. [ laughter ] whatd your parents say about that moment . Do whatever you need to do in order to keep our child alive. They flew me to fresno childrens hospital, and then they couldnt figure it out. So they flew me to ucla hospital, and thats where i had every operation. How many have you had . Twentyeight. What was it like growing up and having to just go into operation, after operation, after operation . I was never able to make friends. I was having to do home schooling and i kept getting sick. And kids around that age were going on dates, going to prom, going to homecoming, like, whatever. I never got to do any of those. I never got to go to homecoming. No one ever asked me out. But misty says her parents never focused on the things she couldnt do. They pushed her to find everything she could do. They did a really, really good job at making sure that i was independent. Making sure that i didnt make any excuses. She just would be like. Im not going to be here so im not going to reach that for you. How would you get that . At the time, i would literally cry and throw a fit, and shes like you dont understand as a mother it was like the worst. I just wanted to grab it for you. Shes like, but i know you can do it. And misty says shes still figuring it out everyday, finding ways to fund her races around the world. To date shes signed up and completed more than 200 endurance races in places like malaysia and japan. Come on misty, you can do it but not long ago, these medals seemed impossible. Take me back to the time where you had that twentyeighth surgery. What happened . I went to ucla with a overnight bag just to get me through the night. And i was supposed to be released that day. I was there for ten days, and i was given morphine two to three times a day, and then when i left i i was still bleeding. Like, i was still severely in pain. So in order for me to cope i kept refilling my prescription. I was losing everything, and i lost my house, i lost a lotta my stuff. Salvation army came and picked up a lot. What was the turning point . No one was gonna help me. I just was, like, i am too young for this. 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