Beto O'Rourke: “I think we are doing our best to strike that balance in ensuring accountability without being punitive and working…”

They’re doing all of this because they are panicked. They are scared.

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.