host of s.e. cupp joining us and also joe lockhart. we saw those shirts. is coons right, are republicans going to spin this as democrats want your guns? i don t think it is spin. beto is always proud of himself when he has a tv moment and quick to fund raise off it and slap it on a bumper sticker or t-shirt. we saw the same when he swore on television twice. and so i m not surprised that he really thinks that this is a big seller for him. but everything that he said before hell, yeah, we ll take your ar-15s was good. and less quotable, right? but harder to put on a t-shirt. and harder for republicans to cut into an attack ad. that was literally handing republicans an advertisement that they can use against him and it was just unnecessary. as chris coons said, we
understand his frustration. whatever side of the issue you are on, you know, you can admire his passion on this issue. but to say stuff like that that he thinks is cute and clever and quote theable is probably going to hurt him and the party. i won exercider if it will t. passion came through. a lot of people said this was beto o rourke s best debate. and he has been in need of a moment to kind of reset or reenergize his campaign. is that what could potentially happen here or will it backfire? i think that you have to understand it from where he was when he said it. which was nowhere. he was at 2%, 3% in the polls. and this has given him a boost of energy and excitement and attention. so that maybe gets him to 7% or 8% which makes him a viable candidate. lightning can strike.
so i don t think that he is worried about, you know, what happens next. he is worried about to him. to him, right. do you think he speaks for the democratic party? no, he doesn t. he speaks for beto o rourke just like joe biden speaks for joe biden and elizabeth warren speaks for elizabeth warren. there is i think if they went up there again and asked all ten of them do you agree with him, eight or 23450i7b would have said no. it is not the democratic but i m a little cynical about the idea that somehow this is something terrible for the democratic party, that republicans will cut ads on it. they were going to cut them anyway. they don t need facts to charge the democrats with some, you know to dem going doing on t issue. but until beto, they didn t have anyone saying yep, coming for your guns.
death is definitely on its last legs. whether it is being picked up support by the islamic state or not is a different question, but i think that al qaeda is finished. okay. bob beyer, good to have you with us. thank you. now to the beto backlash. beto o rourke s comments on a mandatory buy back of assault style weapons is triggering a major response from republicans in his home state. the texas gop is now offering this shirt in exchange for $30 donations. on did you can see confrontational slogan beto, come and take it. that is in responsibility to o rourke s rousing response when he was asked at the democratic debate if he was a supporter of a mandatory buyback. i am if it is a weapon that was designed to kill people on a battlefie battlefield. if the high impact high velocity round when it hits your body shreds everything inside of your body because it was designed to