Beto O'Rourke: “If we'd had someone like James Talarico or Jasmine Crockett…”

“If in 2018, in addition to all those great down ballot candidates whose incredible energy and campaign skills I benefited from, our campaign benefited from at the top of the ticket. If we had had, say, Joaquin or Julian Castro running for, for governor, If we'd had someone like James Talarico or Jasmine Crockett running for Lieutenant governor or Attorney general, imagine the resources, the campaign firepower, the excitement that we would have been able to bring into that competition again. It would have lifted everybody's chances of getting across the line. So that was the impetus for the phone calls I made.” (08:28–08:44)

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