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Democrat Beto O'Rourke running for Texas governor in 2022
Yahoo! News ^ | 15/11/21 | Paul Weber

Posted on 11/15/2021 6:21:40 AM PST by Eleutheria5

PAUL J. WEBER Mon, November 15, 2021, 4:01 PM·6 min read In this article:

Greg Abbott 48th Governor of Texas, since 2015 Explore the topics mentioned in this article

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrat Beto O’Rourke is running for governor of Texas, pursuing a blue breakthrough in America’s biggest red state after his star-making U.S. Senate campaign in 2018 put him closer than anyone in decades.

O'Rourke's announcement Monday kicks off a third run for office in as many election cycles. He burst into the 2020 Democratic presidential primary as a party phenomena but dropped out just eight months later as money and fanfare dried up.

“It's not going to be easy. But it is possible," O'Rourke said in an interview with The Associated Press ahead of his announcement. “I do believe, very strongly, from listening to people in this state that they’re very unhappy with the direction that (Gov.) Greg Abbott has taken Texas.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2; 2022; beto; betoorourke; bobblehead; candidate; gregabbott; gubernatorial; texas
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To: Katya

A fake Hispanic for POTUS. Will Fauxcohantas be his running mate? They’ll both get the fake vote, alright.


41 posted on 11/15/2021 8:27:49 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Juck Foe Biden!)
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42 posted on 11/15/2021 8:47:56 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Eleutheria5

He is living in lala land if he thinks he has any chance of winning anything.


43 posted on 11/15/2021 10:54:11 AM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (LKL)
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44 posted on 11/15/2021 11:58:01 AM PST by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: albie

He lost to Cruz by a lot less than that.


45 posted on 11/15/2021 1:40:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: V_TWIN

People ignored him? He came within a whisker of beating an incumbent Senator, and he ran to the left he didn’t do te usual Texas Democrat “I’m practically a Republican” schtick.


46 posted on 11/15/2021 1:44:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
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