thanks to so many of you in this room, from claude cummings to gerard butler to others part of this campaign in texas, that we ran in every single one of the 254 candice -- counties, no matter how rural or red or blue or urban, no matter how conservative or liberal the audience, but also showing up willing to listen to and learn from those who my thoughts to serve. we got really close, closer than any democrat has come since 1988 to representing that state in the u.s. senate. but more importantly to that, all of us together, it was no one person absolutely transformed and changed our politics and democracy in texas forever after. some indications, young voter turnout in texas up 500%. [applause] mr. o'rourke: two new members of the u.s. house of representatives called all red, elected to safe republican seats, and they were both democrats. and in houston, texas, 17 african-american women elected to judicial positions, literally changing the face of criminal justice in this country's most diverse city. when we campaigned that way, when we listen to everyone treat everyone with respect, we can