Beto O'Rourke: “What can, to cut to the quick, what can we do to move ourselves up on that list?”

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. We have to be absolutely ruthless about getting back in power.

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

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