After El Paso shooting, Beto aims to restart campaign by blrshepherd
WASHINGTON — After a deadly mass shooting terrorized El Paso earlier this month, former congressman Beto O’Rourke returned to his hometown where he met grieving families and mounting calls for him to return on a longer-term basis. Perhaps one of the loudest voices was the Houston Chronicle, whose editorial board implored O’Rourke to drop out of the race for president and focus his efforts on winning GOP Sen. John Cornyn’s Senate seat.
Efforts to position Texas as a new battleground state in the 2020 presidential election has already begun, given that reliably red counties are showing an openness to swing blue. This is seen most starkly in overwhelmingly Republican-voting Tarrant County, where O’Rourke banked 4,000 voters over Sen. Ted Cruz during November’s midterm elections.
O’Rourke has also displayed a more emotional side of himself during his prolonged return to El Paso. In one instance, he lashed out at a gaggle of reporters when he was, once again, asked if there was anything that President Trump could do to heal the country after back-to-back mass shootings. “Beto responded in ways a lot of Americans wanted to see the president of the United States respond — with compassion and anger that should be there, something as disgusting, and white supremacy attacks the nation,” Cross told Yahoo News, adding that she suspects his numbers will surge.
Southern-based Democratic strategist and CBS contributor Antjuan Seawright agrees that a play for Texas could be game changing.
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