Four years after losing a much publicized Senate race by less than 3 percentage points to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, former House Rep. Beto O’Rourke is running for governor of Texas — this time against Gov. Greg Abbott.
in late January, showed Abbott with an 11-point lead over O’Rourke. Notably, both candidates polled at about 40 percent among Hispanic voters, a critical constituency that O’Rourke will have to make inroads with to have a shot at unseating Abbott.
“Democracy is under attack,” O’Rourke said at his rally last Tuesday in Waco. “You see it nowhere more so than in the state of Texas.” He continued: “It is insulting to all of us, knowing how many Texans have been willing to risk, and in some cases have lost their lives, to defend and expand this democracy from just these kinds of attacks.”, which is controversial even among some anti-abortion activists for its unique enforcement mechanism.
People embrace at a temporary memorial honoring victims of a 2019 shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, that left 23 people dead in a racist attack targeting Latinos. , saying last week that he’s “not interested in taking anything from anyone.”
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