Beto O'Rourke: “94 percent of Republican voters in Texas support universal background checks, 98 percent of Democratic voters in Texas…”

We cannot roll over. We cannot play dead.

We have to get serious.

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.

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