lastly, you have a famous or infamous, depends on your point of view, i suppose, friendship with former congressman beto o rourke, who ran for senate last year in texas and lost. if he were to become if he were to run for president and become the democratic nominee, who would you vote for between beto o rourke and donald trump? my plan is to vote for the republican nominee. so you would vote for president trump over beto o rourke. most likely donald trump is the likely candidate. so trump over o rourke. that s very clear. i m pulling you to say the comment. unless beto o rourke decides to run as a republican, which i don t think he s planning on doing. congressman will hurd, thank you for being here. we appreciate it. our next guest is a 2020 candidate building his campaign on a single issue, one that president trump falsely says doesn t exist. governor jay inslee joins us next. stay with us. we find your social security number on the dark web. good, cuz i m a lit
cruz, came within 2.6% of winning. brooke, a texas democrat hasn t won a statewide race since 1994 and because he came so close, they feel like he can run in 2020 against john cornyn, the senior senator here and perhaps win. he came that close. one more biscuit for breakfast maybe he gets over-the-top. there s a lot of people in texas that want him to finish the job for senate. cornyn is a different match-up. they feel it s a better risk than running for president. what about there s this new word that s been coined, beto mania. we ve seen this growing fa nattism over o rourke. his interview with the the washington post just a couple weeks ago showed a real lack of policy knowledge. i m curious what you re hearing from texans.
over is this over o rourke, is this a good strategy? each campaign needs to run their own campaign. he got himself to this point and within striking distance versus georgia, where stacey abrams had oprah winfrey come in to go to african-american women. so i think everyone has to do different things. there is no one better in texas than beto o rourke for himself. bill: do you think cruz loses tomorrow? i don t. a million more registered voters in texas, not just cruz could all the polls be wrong? it s possible but not likely. on average i think beto s closing message is. it would be great if everybody i forgot i was a democrat for the next two days. the point you made is right. more republicans than democrats
in the state of texas and ultimately his biggest challenge. bill: keep going. and i ll add if i can. he is not getting any help from the top of the ticket. sandra: let s hear ted cruz on 60 minutes. if you look at the dynamics we have numbers on our side. there are a lot more conservatives than liberals. what the o rourke has had is intensity. the liberals in texas hate president trump. that anger is dangerous and mobilizing. it means they ll show up no matter what. they ll crawl over broken glass to show up. bill: my sense is three months ago that was probably a dream but a good dream on behalf of democrats. and today you can see the way the numbers are breaking. democrats come home, republicans are home and it seems more like a pipe dream today. the one other piece is how
not credible. congressman beto over work causing trump like insults in his final debate with ted cruz. he is dishonest, that is why the president called him lying ted and why the nickname stuck because it is true. congressman o rourke s pollsters told him to come out on the attack, he wants to insult me and call me a lie that is fine. congressman o rourke sides with liberal extremists on the national level instead of people of texas. people who left the state of texas within a year of being elected to run for another office. do we choose. or do we choose hope? i believe in hope. reporter: recent polling shows the employment the republican ted cruz with a lead over o rourke in the senate race. democrats take the house in november it will not be on donald trump according to the commander-in-chief himself, he tells the associated press he is doing his part this election year despite not being on the