Beto O’Rourke may still be a long shot in the Texas Senate race, but the momentum surrounding his progressive campaign in the deep red Lone Star State is turning heads and drawing comparisons:

“ ‘[Democrats] look uneasily at the current crop of potential candidates, and keep waiting for their Obama-like savior to surface. The thing is, it might be happening right now in Texas.’ ”

That’s Peter Hamby, head of news at Snapchat SNAP, +1.52% , waxing optimistic for the left in a piece he wrote for Vanity Fair.