Beto O'Rourke: “Thirteen weeks and counting, we've seen nothing from Greg Abbott. This is clear to all of us in Texas. We need change.”

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

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.

We needed to do something.