joining me now, wayne slater, senior political writer for the "dallas morning news."ve you here. you have covered texas and national politics over the last 20 years. we remind everybody the last time texas went blue was in the carter days. the latino vote overall overwhelm league gone to democratic candidates over the republican ones. so as we drill down to texas specifically and its exploding latino population is that what democrats are seizing on to see this demographic advantage? >> that is exactly what they are seizing on. that is exactly it, thomas. you see this growing hispanic population. a population disproportionately votes for democrats. and so you now see this new national group recognizing that texas, which is the big enchilada in terms of electoral votes is so important. if it could get a growing number of hispanics out and voting in texas, to turn texas within four years from red to blue, those electoral vote gs with reliably blue states like california and new york and the next president of the united states could very well be a democrat who is halfway

joining me now to talk about the gun-control landscape and texas politics is wayne slater. r political reporter for "the dallas morning news." he is coming to us from austin, texas. wayne always glad to welcome you inside "the war room." >> great to be with you governor. >> jennifer: you know all about organizing on the right, because you wrote the book on karl rove so can the left counter that kind of power when it comes to guns? >> they need two things, and it appears they have both of them. one is money. you mentioned exactly that. when you have mayor bloomberg who has an awful lot of money and the group he is associated with has put out the commercial of the mother of a nine year old who died in the mass shooting in the gabby giffords shooting and the gabby giffords group itself and so you have the money part. the other thing is to seize the moment part and you have to say that a moment after someone has gone in with semiautomatics, and gunned down first graders in a classroom has got to set the table for a moment in which -- which the message of some kind of gun safety