Asymmetric simple random walk?

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It comes from the book Probability: Theory and Example. I don't understand the part marked with red line. Why it cannot converge to an interior point of $(a,b)$?

Can anyone help? Thanks so much!

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Since the random walk has $+-1$ valued steps, converging to an interior point means that the walker has to remain at that point for every step after a certain time, which is impossible.