Beto O'Rourke: “There`s only one person that this helped, and that was Greg Abbott politically in the short term on one cable network.”

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 cannot roll over. We cannot play dead.

This extraordinary experiment 250 years in the making... all of us must do all that we can to keep it going.

We needed to do something.