he nearly lost to senator ted cruz in 2018 and dropped out of the 2020 presidential election before votes were cast in the primaries. is a third time a charm here? well, you know, we re in a different circumstance. beto is a friend of mine. i ve known beto for twquite awhile. i knew him before he ran for the united states senate. this is a state if he ends up announcing, which it looks like he will 2that is light red and because of officials, they re vulnerable. i think they re very vulnerable even in a red or slightly red state but he s going to have to run the right campaign with the right message and do it in a very disciplined, very disciplined way. so i think he s got a shot. he s very popular among the democrats but he has work to do among the indepen pendents but t under estimate, i think, how vulnerable dan patrick is because not only covid and not