Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke is preparing to run for governor of Texas in 2022, with an announcement expected later this year, Texas political operatives tell Axios.
O’Rourke’s entry would give Democrats a high-profile candidate with a national fundraising network to challenge Republican Gov. Greg Abbott — and give O’Rourke, a former three-term congressman from El Paso and 2020 presidential candidate and voting rights activist, a path to a political comeback.
But he would be running in a complicated political environment. Immigration is surging at the southern border and Democrats at the national level are bracing for a brutal midterm election and potentially losing the House of Representatives in 2022.
A new poll for the Dallas Morning News shows that O’Rourke has narrowed the gap with Abbott in a hypothetical matchup, down, 37%-42%. In July, O’Rourke faced a 12-point deficit, 33%-45%.
Over the summer, Abbot has seen his approval rating sink to 41%, with 50% disapproving, in a separate poll.
Read more at Axios.
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a normal Texan will vote REPUBLICAN to keep the ILLEGALS and covid outta Texas
Beto O’Rourke is correct. We must strip all legal registered guns from white law-abiding citizens. In this country only minority criminals and thugs are allowed to possess guns, illegal at that.
Why doesn’t this fake biased report say anything about Beto’s US Senate loss to Ted Cruz in 2018???
God fest Texas. Beto is the bum that has the candle of the blind.
Code me blue-bonnet out. I think he just never gets anything but the flower of his cold day.