O’Rourke, Beto
After Recent Turmoil, the Race for Texas Governor Is Tightening
SUGAR LAND, Texas — One of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. The revival of a 1920s ban on abortion. The country’s worst episode of migrant death in recent memory. And an electrical grid, which failed during bitter cold, now straining under soaring heat. The unrelenting succession of death and difficulty facing Texans over […]
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For Beto O’Rourke, Talk of Gun Control Has Become Both a Political Risk and Reward
“He is frustrated just like me, just like everyone else,” said State Senator Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat who represents Uvalde and who made his own interruption at another Abbott news conference, urging the governor to call for a special session of the Texas Legislature to pass gun-control legislation. Mr. O’Rourke’s campaign for governor is an […]
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Beto O’Rourke Assails Governor Abbott Texas Over Texas Gun Laws
DALLAS — To loud cheers in a community gym on Wednesday evening, Beto O’Rourke, a former congressman from El Paso and the Democratic candidate for governor of Texas, renewed his criticism of Gov. Greg Abbott over the state’s gun laws, which he said allowed an 18-year-old in Uvalde to slaughter 19 students and two teachers […]
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Takeaways From the Texas Primary Elections
For nearly a decade, the refrain from Texas Democrats has been that they are on the verge of making their state competitive, even though no Democrat has won a statewide race since 1994. Tuesday’s primary results illustrated that Democrats still have a long way to go. With more than three-quarters of the votes counted, nearly […]
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A Sneak Peek at the Country’s Midterm Battles: Primary Day in Texas
Still, Mr. Abbott, who has Mr. Trump’s support, was booed in January at a Trump rally north of Houston, only winning over the crowd by invoking the president’s name more than two dozen times in his six-minute speech. Updated March 1, 2022, 1:46 p.m. ET “I think Greg Abbott has been in long enough,” said […]
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Matthew McConaughey Says He Won’t Run for Texas Governor ‘at This Moment’
The actor and author Matthew McConaughey announced on Sunday that he would not run for governor of Texas for now, after months of weighing whether he would seek the office. In a video posted on Twitter and Instagram, Mr. McConaughey, 52, said running for governor is a “humbling and inspiring path to ponder.” “It is […]
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That ‘Team Beto’ Fund-Raising Email? It Might Not Be From Beto.
In one solicitation, the link to the Blue South PAC donation page on ActBlue, the Democratic digital donation-processing site, was highlighted in bright yellow and appeared as if it belonged to the campaign: actblue.com/donate/team-beto. Those who clicked were greeted by a message: “Show your support by donating and joining Team Beto!” Except 100 percent of […]
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Beto O’Rourke Announces Run for Texas Governor, Testing Democrats’ Strength
HOUSTON — Beto O’Rourke entered the race for Texas governor on Monday, challenging an ultraconservative and well-financed two-term Republican incumbent in a long-shot bid to win an office Democrats last occupied in 1995. The arrival of Mr. O’Rourke immediately set the stage for a pitched political showdown next November over the future of Texas at […]
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