i haven t seen her get the kind of treatment that beto o rourke has got so far. that has a lot do with race and gender and it s something that beto o rourke is going to have to grapple with, the idea that someone who did raise $80 million lost against ted cruz, how is it that all of the sudden he thinks he s qualified or has enough accomplishments to be president? i don t think he would get the same sort of confidence and sort of embrace for a woman or african american or minority candidate. jim, your thoughts. we have a story out this morning about beto s announcement and one of the key questions, guidys, i m wonderin is can he scale up from his senate campaign? what was so striking about the lead-up to this announcement is that it was kind of a diy job. he is his own manager and spokesman in a lot of ways. that s what happened last year during the campaign. and it was certainly the case this year. he was personally calling a lot
exci energy and really excite people even though he doesn t endorse a lot of those liberal policies that we re seeing a lot of these canned indicates who are out in the race endorse. when he was running for senate, he didn t endorse medicare for all. he didn t call for free college. yes, he s talking about the environment right now, but if you look at the spectrum, you re right, he is more a centrist candidate or more moderate democrat even though he personally shu personally shuns those labels and hates to be called that. but he and joe biden, should biden jump in they re going to be competing for this centrist lane. and beto is interesting because he s one of those people who can really get people rallied and excited about him, even though he s not endorsing those policies that we re seeing everybody else endorse right no. $80 million in his texas senate race. that s a pile of cash right there. all right. nia malik henderson, ear would to bring you into this story right now. we ll