brian: as the mexican troops rolled up in uniform. the texans haven t been trained. what do they have? they have this commitment. for the most part you put a bunch of eachs together taken in ad hoc defense. brian: they felt good early on. when the flag went up how did travis answer. with a cannon shot. it was an active bravado and something that said we are not going to back off. but they thought they were going to be reinforced. the idea if they could be strong enough and keep the mexicans from bringing up their full force they would get reinforced and the problem would not be fatal. brian: how far away were the
of this race, it s actually looked like a race. is it real or not? reporter: well, it s real, chuck, but make no mistake here, the math still favors ted cruz. he s led in every public poll of this state, and texans haven t elected a democrat to any statewide office since 1994. but there has been real momentum around the o rourke campaign, especially over the last couple of weeks. he s been drawing these big, diverse crowds all over the state, places where democrats don t normally go. he s built the get out the vote operation from scratch. i ve heard a lot of people compare this campaign to the obama campaign in 2008, but it actually reminds me more of the trump campaign in 2016 in that his supporters of poll truthers. they say the numbers do not capture the enthusiasm here on the ground and his campaign is buoyed by these get out the vote numbers which have been extraordinary in texas. garrett, what a great comparison because you re right, all the national smarty pants people, we t
state. if you don t like either party, you vote 3 to 1 democrat. wellings it s a geography is destiny thing. telling the story in the senate where the kavanaugh hearings were a seat saver, and in the suburban house districts, it s the fired up, females who have had it, they don t like how the president is acting, and it doesn t matter how strong the economy may be. they want a protest vote. what s fascinating if states are laboratories like we said in law school. this is an experiment tuesday night. what works for democrats? a moderate, so moderate they seem republican, or is it the abhrams model, progressive, change, bring out people. we ll get the answer tuesday night. tom, pour cold water on this, does anything change wednesday morning, even if it s a
democratic wave, they win the senate and the house, what changes in the politics. what troubles me about what i think are the projected results of the election will end up again without a putting without a theme, you now, that we ll have democrats probably in the house on the upside, i think, the senate will probably say the same, and we re just going to muddle through for the next two years, the country s still going to be deeply divided. talking about women, for example, i listened to women out there as well, and kavanaugh impacted suburban women who had sons and didn t like it, frankly, and they drifted across. there s a mishmash going on here. one thing, that i think is a failure in this country, we have not talked about parkland. we have not talked about las vegas. we have not talked about what happened in pittsburgh a week ago. we re a country that s slaughtering our own citizens on a regular basis, maybe not in those big numbers, but too often. i ll tell ya, gun control mess