The Lone Star Long Shot Who Wants to Topple Ted Cruz - NYT
Here's a long NYT article about Beto. Primary voting is underway!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/us/politics/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-election.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Before Beaumont, Mr. O’Rourke spoke to town halls this month in Lufkin and Woodville, deeply conservative places where Democrats are rarely seen. “It takes guts to come to this area,” one woman in Woodville said. The man who introduced him in Lufkin had just one request, that he refrain from swearing, an admonition that Mr. O’Rourke heeded in Lufkin but not in Beaumont.
Mr. O’Rourke is favored to win his party primary next month and challenge Mr. Cruz. But his odds in November are beyond long. No Democrat has won a statewide office in Texas since 1994, the year before Amazon sold its first book.
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“I think he can win. I think he can inspire Texans,” said Susan McCulley, adding, “we’re not just mad, we’re scared.”
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His mother receives fund-raising solicitations from Mr. Cruz, who calls her son a “Nancy Pelosi liberal,” no doubt a preview of things to come.
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