Rubén Gallego actually said...

"What happened the last election is that we got so pure, and we kept so pure that we started kicking people out of the tent."

"People don't vote for a party, right? It's us that run as Democrats. We need to be the face of the party, and we need to be out there."

"They’re going to have to have the belief that Democrats are gonna be sane on border security, sane on immigration reform."

"Big donors, big organizations, well-known political big Democratic operatives that have encouraged me to run. I’m not denying that."