Hagan then fawned over O'Rourke's "charisma that he has on stage" and that when the cameras are on "that was that moment where he felt he had some kind of destiny." Eerily similar to the media's gushing over of Obama's on screen personality, Hagan extolled, "He has that gleam in his eye." He recalled, "Evan Smith at The Texas Tribune said, 'Seeing him, it's like a Jesus Christ Superstar seeing this guy in front of people.' He's got that celebrity aura about him and in that moment he was owning that. You could see 'I want to do this. I feel I have this destiny.'"