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>> took out more votes than any other democrat state-wide had ever gotten. >> he actually raised more money than ted cruz, which nobody saw coming. pg&e wants you to plan ahead by mapping out escape routes >> you look like ted kennedy. and preparing a go kit, in case you need to get out quickly. >> his positive message and for more information on how to internet savvy made him a sensation. be prepared and keep your family safe, visit pge.com/safety. >> but not everyone is onboard with beto. >> he was running a campaign of puppies and rainbows. >> does this democratic favorite have what it takes to reach the white house? joe biden responding to an >> why are we excited about someone who is very light on allegation of unwanted contact policy? with a nevada politician in >> can you run a national campaign that is about 2014. flores says the then vice aspiration and invasion and not president kissed her on the back about a deep dive on substance and issues. of the head at campaign event. >> a young man who has very he says he doesn't believe he's little going for himself, except he has a great first name. acteden appropriately. israel authorities reopened the >> beto, beto. two crossings at the gaza strip. >> we saw in texas that we have after days of hostility there. a chance to be part of doing something great for this country. >> one, two, three. texas. and cease fire talks maybe continuing. >> ahead, the rise and rise of

beto o'rourke. back to headliners. beto o'rourke. in 2011, beto o'rourke took on the establishment by challenging sitting texas senator silvestre reyes. the underdog wasn't only facing an entrenched core of reyes supporters in el paso. all the speculation ended on march 14th. he was also up against reyes' powerful friends in washington, d.c. less than 24 hours after "vanity fair" published a cover to fight back, beto used a featuring him in a pose reminiscent of ronald reagan. relatively new strategy, putting to use his skills on social beto o'rourke announced his media, reaching out to the masses for smaller donations. candidacy for president and hit the road in iowa. >> beto raised, frankly, not a bad amount of money. >> it's the first stop in our campaign to be president of the but he wasn't going to be able united states of america. to match it. >> with president obama and former president bill clinton >> you'll see us run the largest voicing support for reyes, it grassroots campaign this country looked like the status quo would has ever seen. prevail in west texas. but the cavalry in the form of a super pac was on its way. >> i hope to be able to represent you. get out there and vote. >> beto o'rourke catapulted in 2018 from a relatively obscure >> late in the campaign, you three-term congressman to the have this super pac that gets engaged.

man who took on senator ted cruz their purported purpose was, we in deep red texas, and almost won. >> for thoughts and prayers, believe primary elections should senator cruz, are just not going to cut it anymore. be more competitive, that too the people of texas, the many people get passes in primary elections. children of texas, deserve action. >> the super pac bombed reyes with negative ads. >> in the end, the candidate known simply as beto fell short, >> silvestre reyes's time in congress adds up. but he still made an outsized impact in texas. >> reyes claimed one of the donors with ties to the super >> the beto o'rourke effect was a real thing in texas. pac was bill sanders, beto's he turned a lot of people out to father-in-law, a wealthy real vote who would not have voted. estate developer. he also turned lot of people who >> i think the reyes campaign might not have voted for was pissed. democrats to vote for democrats. >> that helped not only him but they viewed it with some anger, this whole slate of candidates. and they went after him, >> beto also crushed o'rourke, pretty hard. fund-raising records, bringing >> beto o'rourke wants to be a in almost $80 million without congressman. pac money. >> in their own negative ads, the reyes campaign unearthed beto's past. thanks to his constant posts on >> he has a criminal record that facebook, beto mania didn't just includes dwi and burglary arrests. sweep the state but the entire country. >> reyes was seizing on the arrest record, the implication i >> he would do things like go to think was that beto was a what-a-burger and skate in the parking lot. irresponsible. he would do his laundry on and reyes was a steady hand. facebook live, and people would watch. >> the video publicly intoxicated being spanked. people would watch him do

laundry. in a time where there's so much, >> this video shows beto kind of he penetrated. on the floor dancing or writhing or whatever you want to call it. in connecticut and oregon, people had beto for senate signs. reyes' own advisers say you're looking petty, don't do that, but he continued to keep it up. >> he did all that without >> beto's campaign fired back pollsters or speechwriters. and went negative. it was just beto being beto. >> he's very charismatic. >> beto's campaign seized on a very compelling speaker. these reports that reyes had he's shown he's a fantastic been giving positions and money fund-raiser. to the people in his family. nothing that was illegal, but especially from small donors. stuff that seemed a little too cozy. and i think people like him. >> as the race tightened, a stroke of legislative luck hit >> he's our best bet to beat beto's campaign. trump because he can bring in such a wide contingency of congressional redistricting democratic voters and folks from delayed the primary two months. the other side as well. >> if you're a republican and beto took full advantage and you're here, you're in the right place. campaigned relentlessly. if your rar democrat and you're >> he was moving the needle here, you're in the right place. every day. i could see it. i could feel it. >> democrats have compared beto >> the hard work paid off. to barack obama and to another beto squeaked to victory, political icon, a man he curiously resembles. winning 50.5% of the primary vote. >> the first time i met him, i just enough to avoid a runoff. thought oh, my god, he looks like bobby kennedy. >> we knocked on the doors of >> one of the more unlikely over 16,000 to meet them

directly in their homes, hear people to appreciate beto's appeal is jeff roe, a senior what they had to say, listen to their concerns, and questions strategist for his opponent ted cruz. and ideas. >> i said on election night, i and we also went to every single can't believe anyone beat him. debate, forum, community meeting, town hall, neighborhood he's one of the most dynamic association. we really wanted to meet people, politicians the democratic party talk to them, and listen to them. has, bar none. >> a huge deal. yeah, it was a huge upset. and the tilt and the shift left >> six months later in the heavily democratic district, that the democrat party is beto trounced his republican opponent in the general election. undergoing right now, he's right the 40-year-old freshman in line at the right time to be congressman arrived on capitol the nominee for the democrats or at least be on the ticket. >> there are people running for hill in january 2013 to make his mark. president now who no one is clamoring for. everyone is clamoring for him. if it were you, wouldn't you listen? but the proud son of west texas was virtually unknown in washington. >> i don't think there's a >> i was covering a clearer contrast with trump in congressional baseball practice. the democratic party in terms of there was this one kind of tone than beto that really skinny scraggly haired member of optimistic, you know, appeal to congress there. a couple people went up to him our better selves tone that beto brings. and said oh, are you so-and-so from so-and-so's office coming to pitch us some fastballs. >> when he appears on an oprah special in february, beto made a he said no, actually, i'm beto o'rourke, a mib of congress. kennedyesque call to action, i represent el paso. >> though he was a newbie, he

asking the audience to confront the mistreatment of migrants at wasn't shying away from bold the border. ideas. >> you're told to keep your head >> do not blame this on donald trump. down, try to get re-elected and do not blame this on a political wait until your party is in the party. do not blame this on someone majority. else. if we are a democracy, then the that's not the way i approach people are the government. life and not the way i would approach a challenge like this. the government is the people. it's on every single one of us i want to get something done. to make it right. >> with republicans in firm control of the house, beto's >> the issue of immigration and efforts were stymied. border security will be a >> i don't think you can really signature one for beto. point to any major accomplishments that beto would that was clear in february 2019 have had in congress in large when donald trump traveled to part because the whole time he beto's hometown of el paso for a rally. was in congress, democrats were in the minority. it was a very frustrating time the former congressman met him for him. with a competing demonstration. >> throughout his three terms in congress, beto returned to a >> we're the living proof that controversial issue that hit close to home. this is a safe community because we're good to each other. immigration. >> if we build more walls, further militarize the border, we're going to push the few >> all of us together are going to make our stand. remaining migrants who choose to cross into the u.s., into inhospitable and deadly territory. here in one of the safest cities we'll see more death and suffering. in the united states of america. >> he tried to bring a voice of what was really happening at the border.

safe, not because of walls but in spite of walls. >> the border with mexico has never been safer than it is today. [ speaking spanish ] >> beto's signature issue would soon dominate the 2016 >> he's a year and a half old. presidential election. for beto, extending the wall was >> for beto, who grew up bilingual among families from a costly and fundamentally both sides of the border, these issues are deeply personal. flawed solution to illegal immigration. >> we need to move from a defensive posture of defending >> he absolutely believes that a the u.s./mexico border to a country of immigrants is a posture of pride and celebration better country and that the of what we have here. immigrant experience in this >> but inciting fear of illegal country is fundamental to the story of america. >> a quarter of those who live immigrants is what helped elect here were born in another country. the nation's 45th president. their very presence makes us safer, more successful, >> we will build a great, great stronger, more secure. wall. >> that's his issue. and we will put an end to illegal immigration. it's a home game for him. not an away game. >> the hostile political climate as it is for other candidates emboldened beto, and in march coming onto that field. coming up later -- >> he's a relentless campaigner. 2017, when a major snow storm the number they throw out is he knocked on 16,000 doors. ♪ closed airports in washington, d.c., he decided to drive there and took a chance on an unlikely friendship with congressman will fight both fast hurd. tums chewy bites with gas relief both politicians streaming much all in one relief of heartburn and gas of it live on facebook.

♪ >> good morning, everybody. >> morning. ♪ tum tum tum tums >> thanks for joining us this tums chewy bites with gas relief morning. >> will hurd is a republican who ♪ do you ♪ love me? ♪ represents a neighboring district to beto's. ♪ i can really move ♪ ♪ do you love me? ♪ i'm in the groove >> they found themselves in san antonio. ♪ now do you love me? all flights were cancelled into d.c. because of a blizzard. ♪ do you love me now that i can dance? ♪ >> democrat beto o'rourke and applebee's 3 course meal. now that's eatin' good republican will hurd are driving in the neighborhood. about 1600 miles from san antonio, texas, to d.c. >> in a rented chevy impala, they began the 1600-mile road trip. >> hey, america. >> the facebook videos of the unlikely pair of road warriors quickly went viral. >> i'm going to shoot a shot of this. >> like a buddy picture or a cop show. the two of them together, you know, eating snickers and hamburgers the entire time. >> and they took calls along the way. >> hey, this is newt. >> speaker gingrich, you're on with will and beto. >> you guys are making more (avo) let them move the way they were born to.born to be wild folks -- this is the most in new pampers cruisers 360 fit. bipartisan news we have had in the last couple years. with its ultra stretchy waistband and adaptive 360 fit.

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and not just how hard those things are and just, you know, how you get them done, but the joy that you can find in them. >> his childhood nickname, beto, short for roberto, or robert, would stick with him through adulthood. >> el paso is a very hispanic culture, so even a lot of anglo families would adopt hispanic nicknames. >> pat had high hopes for his son, but beto was more of a free spirit. chris cummings is a childhood friend. >> ride skateboards and bicycles. wander the neighborhood. kind of looking for trouble, but not serious trouble. >> growing up, beto's relationship with his father was, by many accounts, complicated. >> what beto has told me is that (video games have evolved.addle) pat o'rourke was this larger than life figure who could really suck the oxygen out of a room. why hasn't the way you bank? but i think he was maybe not

always the easiest person to virtual wallet from pnc bank have as your father. helps make it easier to see what you're spending, and so that was part of the stash more into savings reason that he ended up going to and stay on top of your finances in a digital world. this all-male boarding school in virginia. just one way pnc is modernizing banking >> beto found the release from to help make things easier. those high expectations in the rebellious world of punk rock. pnc bank. make today the day. beto started his own punk band. >> he had this band, foss, with a few of his friend prom back in el paso. he likes an adventure. he likes a road trip, so they booked gigs where they could. >> beto and his band even we've had all these great appeared on the local el paso talk show called "let's get real with bill lowry." people who are following and commenting and sharing with us. they weren't a big deal band or so it's really been a fun trip. anything, but they convinced a >> by march of 2017, with beto o'rourke's bipartisan road trip local access preacher, an evangelical preacher, to let them on his show by pretending in the rear view, many wondered to be a gospel band. what the future held for this young charismatic politician. i reached out to him later and he remembered the incident and >> beto and amy decided, and i said that guy is beto o'rourke? would say it's a joint run, they i can't believe he turned into a decided they wanted to run for senate. high functioning member of society. >> in true beto fashion, the >> beto moved to new york city announcement was broadcast on facebook live. in 1991 to attend columbia university. >> i'm running to represent the

first, to study film and then great state of texas in the u.s. senate. english. at columbia, he opened himself >> he regards her absolutely as up to new experiences, joining the crew team. his adviser in chief, his critic in chief. so it's natural for him to both while he was a model of determination on the boat, a more reckless side of beto emerged on a return trip to el paso. want and need her participation as an equal partner and as part of a we, not an i. >> he had an arrest for essentially a burglary charge on the utep campus. >> 45th president of the united states of america, donald j. he didn't steal anything, but he trump. broke into a place he shouldn't have with a couple friends. >> when trump was elected, they felt like they had to do >> beto spent the night in jail. something. and beto talks about this a lot. he woke up and he said what am i the local prosecutor dropped the charges a few months later. going to say to my kids about this time? did we do something or did we he returned to new york city and sit on the sidelines? stayed there after graduating from columbia. >> young democratic leaders around the nation felt the same. >> beto was basically bumming around brooklyn. rising up in resistance to take he had a lot of temp jobs, odd jobs. on the new establishment. but in texas, the challenge he was a nanny for a family on would be enormous. the upper west side of new york. a democrat hadn't won a what he told me was he was state-wide election in nearly a quarter of a century. really looking for meaning in life and what he wanted to do with his life. and beto's opponent was a skilled campaigner himself. >> i'm a fighter. >> west texas was calling him i am passionate about what i home. believe. >> one of the last men standing

but the adjustment to life back against donald trump in a in el paso wouldn't be a straight path. vicious battle for the 2016 republican presidential nomination. in september, 1998, he was >> ted cruz had a lot of arrested a second time. practice. right? this time for driving under the influence. and he was also supposedly this debate champion in college. >> the dui was the stupid kind >> ted cruz may have had a reputation as the most hated of thing that people sadly do too often in their 20s. politician in washington, but they loved him in texas. >> there's only one texas. >> he completed a program for dui infractions and the charge was dropped. >> beto, despite his appeal, was as the new millennium dawned, a lone star long shot. >> i think john cornyn famously beto got serious about making his own mark in el paso. referred to it as a suicide mission. somebody had to be the in 1999, he and two friends sacrificial lamb to run against ted cruz. launched a web services company might as well be this guy from el paso with no political future and later an alternative anyhow. newspaper and online magazine. all under the name stanton street. >> beto didn't recruit expert advisers or pollsters. >> he really thought that stanton street could offer a truly local voice. he invited friends, some with no >> the content was smart. political experience, to join his team. it was investigative. beto even asked close friend he also i think had designs on jody casey to be his campaign making el paso a better place manager. somehow. >> i said no. that's crazy. >> his father, retired from i don't know how to run a senate politics, was one of stanton campaign, but we thought about street's more popular correspondents. it.

i think my husband asher and i filing accounts of his solo travels on bicycle. had the same feeling that beto and amy had. it was really our moral obligation to help him win this but then in july 2001, pat o'rourke was hit by a car and race because we were so killed. concerned about the state of the country. >> it was a shock to everyone. and i know that beto took it really hard. >> as he had done in el paso six years earlier, beto proved never to count out the underdog. >> beto was asked about his father's impact on his own public service. >> thank you all for doing this. very grateful. >> you know, he absolutely loved >> you're exciting to me like john kennedy excited me. life. and -- >> over the next 15 months, beto marched across texas. sorry. >> it's all right. sometimes he even rolled in. >> not long after pat's death, >> on a first name basis with the stanton street newspaper and online magazine folded. every stranger he meets, beto is it was a disappointment, but it waking up passion in democrats across the deep red state of texas. wouldn't be the last time el paso would hear from beto. >> beto pledged to visit each and every county in the state, coming up, beto o'rourke's sharing his journey on facebook first run for office. live. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job >> to drive to all 254 counties. >> and he did. >> we continued to stick to

beto's style of being this really authentic, transparent candidate, which really caught on. >> we never ask whether someone is republican or democrat. we don't care about turning texas blue or keeping it red. none of that matters as much as making sure this country lives up to its potential and its promise. >> town halls, rallies, the senate hopeful was relentless in building his base. >> typical day for beto would be a 5:00 a.m. run with constituents. >> good morning, everybody. >> so good to see you. thank you for coming out. >> he would do running town halls, essentially, where he would listen to constituents and run with them, and then he would go back to the hotel, shower, go from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? to his next event and do five more events. flonase relieves your worst symptoms >> moments big and small including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. appeared all over social media. most pills only block one. >> i remember one time he was like, i'm going to live stream flonase. doing my laundry. we were like, hey, hide the chones, which is slang for underwear in el paso. look limu. a civilian buying a new car.ug >> but it was one specific let's go. moment posted on facebook from

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while expanding his platform to become increasingly progressive. ted cruz's senior strategist jeff roe recalls -- >> he started to really go left. he was talking about things he had never talked about before. medicare for all. >> bringing republicans and democrats to the table on guaranteed high quality universal health care. >> he even called for trump's impeachment in a cnn town hall. >> i do think there's enough there for impeachment. if asked, i would vote on it. >> and astonishing number of texans were loving what they were hearing. >> we took congressman o'rourke deliberately to a red part of the state to see how his campaign would be received, how his message would be heard. we showed up at this community college in the county where waco after financing issues is, and it was like the beatles forced him to shutter his landing at jfk airport. alternative newspaper, beto o'rourke decided there was >> beto wasn't just telling another way to serve el paso. progressives what they were desperate to hear. >> i was extremely impressed he got them to open their with how smart he was and how wallets and showed his appreciation on social media. passionate he was about his commitment to wanting to serve

the community. >> those of you who have contributed at betofortexas.com, >> he would run for city average contribution has been council. $25. and civic engagement wasn't the >> he actually raised more money only thing on beto's mind. than ted cruz, which nobody saw coming. he started dating amy hoover sanders, an educator and >> unlike his 2012 race for a daughter of multimillionaire real estate developer bill house seat, beto made a point of sanders. turning down large campaign >> they very quickly fell in contributions. love. >> a campaign that has not taken and it was pretty quick after that i think maybe a year or a single dime from a single political action committee. two, and they got married. >> in 2005, beto hit the streets >> he didn't do it as a political stunt. he really felt like it was the in his first political campaign for city council. right thing to do. >> nobody thought beto would >> as beto rapidly builds his war chest, grabbing national win, and he, i think that was headlines along the way, senator when he really truly began to ted cruz took notice. appreciate the power in knocking on doors. by september 2018, strategists >> and when everything was said and done, all of the incumbents for both campaigns felt primed were swept away. for the first debate. >> one of the first initiatives >> we had a small debate team, mostly young people, the prep that beto and fellow council was really just watching and members had was a major revitalization of downtown el understanding, you know, how ted cruz debates. paso, but soon after its 2006 >> beto, he was running a campaign of puppies and unveiling, community activists rainbows. began pushing back on the plan.

challenged him on policy, don't >> they crashed pretty hard let him get by on platitudes. against forces that said this downtown revitalization you're >> the stage was set for cruz, going to do is going to tear the tenacious debater, to pounce on his starry eyed competitor. down this neighborhood, which was right next to the border >> gentlemen, let's begin. near downtown, which is a long time historical mexican-american >> the first debate was neighborhood there. challenging for us because there >> one of the protest leaders were some hecklers in the crowd from ted cruz's side, and it got was noted el paso historian david sderoto romo. a little ugly, and it was disappointed. >> we weren't sold on this >> that's what congressman o'rourke wants to see the project that it was some kind of supreme court doing, writing the second amendment out of the bill panacea that was going to, you of rights. >> that's not true. know, make el paso great again. of course i support the second amendment. and that was actually their slogan at the time. >> the candidates sparred over it's kind of ironic. hot button issues like guns. >> beto's father-in-law, founder >> the number one answer i heard of a real estate development from the students and parents and teachers at santa fe is more company, was the public face of the revitalization plan. armed police officers in schools to keep our kids safe. >> beto as a city councilman >> listening to rhonda hart, who finds himself in a difficult lost her daughter kimberly in role where he's trying to push the santa fe shooting, she tells me bringing weapons into those classrooms would not have saved forward community interests that might also benefit his father-in-law. her daughter's life. it will not make us safer. >> and to us, mr. o'rourke was >> beto is about commonsense gun laws. just a pretty face of a very ted cruz wanted to frame beto is

ugly plan against our most he's going to take all your guns and open up the borders. vulnerable neighborhoods. that wads completely unfair and not true. >> speaking in spanish, beto >> they also butted heads over immigration. >> senator cruz has promised to tried to sell the proposal to a deport each and every single skeptical audience. dreamer. that cannot be the way that >> residents of the community texas leads on this important had said how can you be sitting at the same dinner table with issue. the same person, your >> his focus seems to be on fighting for illegal immigrants father-in-law, that starts this and granting u.s. citizenship to 12 million people who are here consortium and starts this illegally is a serious mistake. project. i think congressman o'rourke is out of step with texas on that. >> beto insisted that he was doing what he saw as best for >> some felt beto's debate performance could have been the community. stronger. >> people criticized him. >> later on, bill sanders pledged he wasn't going to take dude, he's punching you in the any profit from it. face, and you're not even putting up your hands, let alone >> in the end, the assurances punching back. didn't matter. the project was killed. >> in their next and final in part by the great recession of 2008. debate, recorded october 16th at councilman o'rourke moved on, cbs affiliate kens, beto went on the offensive. >> he's dishonest. and in 2009, set his sights on a it's why the president called him lying ted. >> in the second debate, he crisis that he saw first-hand as started to punch back. an el paso resident. not very well. kind of awkwardly. the nation's long running war on drugs. didn't seem like himself. >> you are all talk and no action. >> i would ask that there be some language in here that would >> it's clear congressman o'rourke's pollsters have told

also include rethinking our war him to come out on the attack. on drugs, which by any measure i >> beto instantly regretted it. have looked at, has been an didn't seem like himself. abject failure. >> you are all talk and no >> beto introduced a resolution action. >> it's clear the pollsters told ahead of its time. >> the city council pushed him to fight back. through a resolution that the >> it changed the character of country should consider having a debate about the legalization of the campaign he was trying to marijuana. promote. >> he wasn't being who he was. we thought to ourselves, oh, >> beto in approaching this saw well, the carriage has turned back into a pumpkin, fairytale obviously the u.s. playing a huge role in funding this over, a couple months left in drug-related violence because we the race and they migrate back had struck this awful bargain. we'll buy your drugs, we'll send to cruz. you money. >> beto quickly returned to the >> but that resolution was very campaign trail and back to being unpopular with the congressman beto. >> that's why the race became as close as it was at the end of el paso, silvestre reyes, who had been a former border patrol because he returned to the things he was doing that had officer, was kind of a more been successful, not doing conservative democrat, and politics as usual. thought that was going to >> with his supporters outraged jeopardize federal funding for over president trump's immigration policies, beto's the el paso area, having the city council take such a strong stand for legalization. hope and unity took hold. >> the pressure congressman >> this idea we can scare each reyes brought was too much for other about each other, based on the city council. where we are from, what language

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first democratic in nearly a quarter century to win statewide office? >> this will not be a typical texas election. a lot of people began to get their hopes up, hey, he actually could do this. >> he never ran like he thought he was going to lose. he never talked like a candidate who would lose. >> tomorrow night we will be celebrating the victory of our lifetime for this state, for this country, for this generation. there is a 5,069 vote margin in texas. >> on election night, november 6th, beto and his supporters gathered in a baseball stadium in el paso. >> the infield was filled up with people. a ton of excitement, really long lines to get in. >> but the crowds, the enthusiasm, hard fought campaign and even beto himself were not enough to unseat republican, ted cruz. >> we have a big call. this is out of texas. nbc news is projecting ted cruz

will return to the senate. >> election night was great and then it was really sad. i believed up until we didn't win that we were going to win. >> beto lost by just 200,000 votes out of 8 million cast. tonight's loss does nothing to diminish the way i feel about texas or this country. >> beto made this amazing speech and very much off-the-cuff speech and he just talked about the love he felt along the road and everyone that he met. >> all of you, showing the country how you do this, so [bleep] proud of you guys. >> i think he lifted everybody up. we all just felt like this is incredible what he's done and how he's done it and the way he's done it. >> even as beto's senate campaign came to an end,

speculations began about a presidential run in 2020. >> beto o'rourke has not confirmed he will run for president. there are clues in that direction. >> i don't believe there was a serious conversation about the presidency until that point. >> as one prominent democrat announced their plans, beto hit the road to do soul searching and ponder what would probably be the most important decision he'd ever make. >> you heard of beta testing, a trial run before making something major hit the market. in the case of a presidential candidate, you might call it beto testing. >> even as the media poked fun what the boston herald called his weird excellent adventure, beto described his experiences taking the pulse of the heartland on the website medium. as beto seemed to delay his decision about running the media reported doubts about his candidacy from his fellow democrats.

he was also criticized for supporting his road trip buddy, republican congressman, will hurd, who won his reelection and prevented the democrats from picking up an additional seat in the house. >> the first time he's being attacked from the left, i think it's totally fair to crazy parts of his record but at the same time we can't have this purity test with democrats, they have to check all these boxes or unacceptable as a candidate and then we have no candidate. >> former congressman, beto o'rourke, joining the field as a potential 2020 candidate. >> it was what many had been watching for. >> amy and i are happy to share with you i'm running to serve you as the next president of the united states of america. this is a defining moment of truth for this country and every single one of us. >> reporter: it launched an immediate wave of speculation about his chances. >> a lot of positions he'll have to take in a presidential election to differentiate himself from the democratic

field are going to be things he needs to really think hard about for the first time. >> the challenge for him as a national candidate is going to be to take that same playbook and apply it across 50 states. can you run a national campaign really about aspiration and inspiration and not really about deep dive substance? >> president trump wasted little time sharing his opinion about beto's announcement. >> i think he has a lot of hand movement. i've never seen so much hand movement. i said, is he crazy or is that just the way he acts? >> many people who followed beto o'rourke's career see this as the right moment, both for him and for the country. >> we learned in this last election, young people, people of color and women are the rocket booster that power the democrats. >> instead of fear and division he's offering hope and inspiration and unity. what people want right now. >> what a contrast that would be from someone like donald trump and someone like beto o'rourke. it would be incredible. >> history calls for us to come

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