Beto O'Rourke: “Please do not sacrifice the civil rights of our home, of our community, of our people.”

This is for all the marbles. We need to show up this Saturday at 11 a.m. on the statehouse steps.

There is potentially a latent one, one in the background that may become more in the foreground at one point.

I think people will take it for what it is – it’s a gimmick, it’s a bribe. It’s another promise that the president will be unable to fulfill … It adds to the stink of desperation that is emanating from that convention centre.

We have to get serious.