night, bet yes o rourke took a bold stance on the con fission case of assault weapons. if it was a weapon designed to kill people on a battlefield, if the high impact, high velocity round when it hits your body shreds everything inside of your boody bass twaus designed to do that, body, because it was designed to do that, because you would bleed to death on a battlefield and not be able to get up and kill one of our soldier, and when you see that used in odessa, a mother, a girl, shot by an ar-15, and that mother watched his daughter bleed to death in the course of an hour, because there were so many others shot and not enough ambulances to get to them in time, and hell yechld, we re going to take your ar-15 and ak-47 so you can t kill americans anymore.
campaign. joining us now with more on the new reporting, nbc news national political reporter josh letterman. josh, great to have you with us. you have beto o rourke, buttigieg, looking to reboot their campaigns in some way. what are the challenges they both face, in taking on what is shaping up to be at least up to now a three-way race between biden, warren and bernie sanders? yes, both of these candidates once the hot new thing in the democratic primary. pete buttigieg and bet yes o rourke were the fresh face young democrats from conservative states who had won in conservative states, that were offering the democratic party something different than what they see from these older candidates. and now, as the race seems to be settling into a three-way contest at the top between warren, biden and sanders, beto o rourke and pete buttigieg both struggling to maintain relevance and trying to find some way back into the center of the
conversation. so how are they doing that? well, they re doing it very different ways. bet yes o rourke, in the wake of that horrible mass shooting in el paso, texas, his hometown, has tried to take a strategy where he goes to nontraditional states, he goes to conservative areas, really focuses on gun control and stands apart. pete buttigieg trying to use that money he raised to build a massive campaign organization across the country, that he thinks will be capable of carrying him into the primaries in iowa and in new hampshire. so which game plan do you think could actually gain some traction? that s the big question. the buttigieg campaign is convinced that they are putting in place the steps needed to go out into those states and find the voters be a got get them to the polls and narrow the mass between the fundraising and huge crowd sizes and the fact that neither of these men are polling in the double digits in the polls. and o rourke s very untraditional strategy, but this is