joining us is wayne slater, senior political writer for dallas morning news. ering the republican state convention this week. wayne, it's great to see you and have you here. >> great to be with you, rachel, as always. >> let me ask you about this convention versus texas republican conventions past. they're always kind of amazing and always huge. is it more contentious than it usually is on this immigration issue specifically or any of the other things they're changing or tweaking? >> it is contentious. it was contentious two years ago. it was somewhat contentious four years ago. the key here is, let's quote, reasonable folks among the republicans who, as you have so well set up in the set-up piece, are worried about the future of the party and alienating every hispanic potential voter from el paso to lubbock, are saying we've got to do something. we can't be the party of no anymore, and this fairly modest appeal to a guest worker program, the texas solution, is one thing we could do. but it will be contentious tomorrow. the debate is going to be on the floor to

you saw wayne slater in the piece.is a bit of an understatement but what's important that's happening here is that they really are rebuilding the party from the ground up. they really are putting people on the ground to build for the future, so even if they can't get it done this november and the odds are long, i think that they are excited about being able to revitalized the party. another thing they told me, steve, is this convention this year had as many delegates and as much energy as the convention in 2008 when you had barack obama and hillary clinton. so definitely a lot of fire in the belly. one other thing i grabbed for you that i thought you would like is the difference between the republican convention and the democratic convention as told through footwear. if we've got that picture, we've got the democrats have the pink sneakers. there were lots of folks sporting the iconic wendy davis pink sneakers. and then you have on the republican side a woman with a gun there in a holster, a ron paul button, and guns d

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