Midterm Cram: Texas Senate Race - Cruz vs. O'Rourke (ft. Emily Ramshaw)
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
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4.5 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Late Night staffers Sal Gentile and Henry Melcher talk to Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Emily Ramshaw about the Senate race between Texans Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz.
Her interview begins at 5:27.
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| 0:42.2 | Happy Monday, everyone, Seth Meyers here. Today, we have another special midterm cram episode |
| 0:47.4 | of the late-night podcast where our staffers, Cel gentile Henry Melcher, help you understand what's |
| 0:51.4 | going on in politics prior to the upcoming November elections. Today, they welcome Texas |
| 0:55.2 | Tribune Editor-in-Chief Emily Ramshaw to talk about the Texas Senate race between Beto O'Rourke |
| 1:00.4 | and Ted Cruz. Now, let's go to Sal and Henry. |
| 1:10.7 | Hey, Sal. Hey, Henry. We are recording this on Friday, and we're going to talk about the Texas |
| 1:15.3 | Senate race between Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz, which is honestly probably one of the most |
| 1:19.1 | interesting Senate races in the country. It is certainly the most covered Senate race in the country. |
| 1:23.7 | Yes. Not necessarily the closest. No, but wow, everyone is talking about Beto O'Rourke and Ted |
| 1:28.6 | Cruz, because these are two fascinating candidates, and it does seem like for the first time in many |
| 1:32.7 | years a Democrat does have the chance of winning in Texas. Whether or not Beto O'Rourke does, he seems |
| 1:38.6 | like he will make it at least a little bit closer than typically you'd expect for a Senate race in Texas. |
| 1:42.7 | It has all of the ingredients of a race that is going to attract national fascination. It's certainly |
| 1:47.8 | has tracked hours. So you've got first of all just the consequences of who controls Congress |
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