You! This is Radio Atlantic. I'm Isaac Dauver. Right now I'm at a hotel in Boston on my way to the New Hampshire State Democratic

Convention, which is happening over the weekend. I spend a lot of time on the road covering this

presidential campaign. Plains, trains, ubers, many, many rental cars.

Today I took the Bolt bus.

If you're not familiar, it's basically a gray hound for 20-something New Yorkers.

I've never ridden one for a campaign, and despite once being a 20-something New Yorker myself,

I hadn't ridden one in years.

Neither had better or work, but that's how he decided to go himself

from New York where he was for the CNN Climate Change Forum on Wednesday night, up to New

Hampshire by way of Boston. Not a campaign bus with his name on it, just a bolt bus with

bad Wi-Fi. Waiting to get on, I asked him how long it had been since he'd been on a bus like this himself.

It's been a while.

I used to live here in New York and so I remember taking the bus to DC or to Boston.

Chicago even took it to El Paso once, but that was in my 20s.

I ride the bus.

Beto is a name you surely know.

He's the former congressman from Texas.

Right now, he's a presidential candidate. In 2018 though he ran for Senate and in an effort to

unseat Ted Cruz he upended politics becoming a celebrity and raising 38 million

dollars in a single quarter.

His presidential campaign hasn't gone as well.

The problem hasn't been that he didn't have the big breakout moment at the second debate which fans were hoping for, though he did not.

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