Democrat Beto O’Rourke (VG) Austin (VG) has previously attempted to become a Senator and President. If he is to become governor, he must fill the gap in the polls before the election on Tuesday.
On May 25, Beto O’Rourke (50 years old) walked onto the stage unelected in texas, Governor Greg Abbott, 64, held a news conference the day after 19 children were shot in their classrooms.
– You do nothing! He cried.
Friday night at a gymnasium in the state capital of Austin, the message was still that Abbott did nothing to prevent another school massacre — and that Texans did. Most of them are in the whole United States.
“This is the most important election of our lives,” he says to the fans present, who stand ecstatically, clapping, shouting, and raising Peto posters in the air.
An intense election campaign is drawing to a close for Beto O’Rourke.
On Tuesday, during the midterm elections, Texas of 30 million people will elect a new governor.
“Losers Superstar”
Former rock guitarist O’Rourke of El Paso, Texas, succeeded in becoming one of the most famous names among Democrats by losing the election.
After a few years in the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., he challenged a teenage father to a Senate seat in 2018 Controversial Ted Cruz.
O’Rourke has gained massive national attention as a political underdog and new hope for Trump-era Democrats — a Democrat who could actually win the Texas election.
It was also very even: only 1.6 percent and 200,000 extra votes for Cruz separate the two.
In 2020, O’Rourke attempted to ride Peto’s hype to become the Democratic presidential candidate, but gave up ahead of the primaries after failing in the polls.
– Democrats keep falling in love with ‘loser stars’, writes Atlantic Ocean.
Will there be a third attempt for O’Rourke, this time as governor of Texas?
This would make him the state’s first Democratic governor since then Very popular Ann Richards in 1990.
Struggling at the polls
According to polls, it looks bleak for O’Rourke.
average measurements FiveThirtyEight Collected, Abbott turns out to be ahead by nine percent.
But it fluctuates: Two surveys taken around the same time period at the end of October showed Abbott ahead of three and 13 percent, respectively.
Where O’Rourke still outperforms the current governor in fundraising.
Abbott raised about $70 million.
O’Rourke set a record for political fundraising in Texas during this election by raising $76 million, he writes Texas Tribune.
Don’t believe in opinion polls
VG Democrats meeting in the gym doesn’t trust the polls much.
They believe Texas is not a conservative state, but a state where citizens don’t vote often—and so Republicans quit with victory over and over again.
At least, Democrats believe that the Republican-controlled state assembly is resorting to extreme recalculation of electoral districts, the so-called “gerrymandering”.
I don’t believe in polls, Nancy Thompson tells VG.
She is the founder of Mothers Against Greg Abbott, which has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
“I’ve lived in this state since 1995 and voted in every election, but I haven’t been selected in any opinion poll,” she said.
Force, abortion and guns
Texans, led by Greg Abbott, have been in the crossfire on several fronts recently.
In February last year Shatter the state’s independent power grid In unnaturally cold weather to be here. O’Rourke points out that not much has been done to prevent the same thing from happening again.
Last September, Texas presented Banning abortion after six weeksfirst in the US, before abortion now then fall decision ro The person who performs it on a woman shall be punished with life imprisonment – without exception for incest or rape.
In May this year, Texas was once again hit with a major shooting tragedy 19 children were killed in an elementary school in Ovaldi.
These are all issues that O’Rourke addressed repeatedly during his campaign.
Abbott responds by saying O’Rourke would be a disaster for Mexican border politics and crime.
Attack, attack
According to polls, the majority of Texans believe the state is headed in the wrong direction with Abbott as governor. However, that doesn’t seem to mean they think O’Rourke is the answer.
“It’s about the fact that Republicans have attacked and attacked and attacked him for four years in their social media ecosystem and on Fox News,” Susan Hayes tells VG.
She is serving as a Democratic replacement for the Texas Secretary of Agriculture on Tuesday.
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The national political climate is clear anyway Any republican would like it Who stands in the election with the very Unpopular Joe Biden And an economy where inflation is felt every day Ordinary Americans.
Of all the things O’Rourke is talking about this evening — the fight for freedom, rights, abortion, education, racism, voting rights, the legalization of cannabis — economics doesn’t say a word.
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Ebany Flores (20) voted earlier yesterday and is now in place in a gymnasium a few meters from Beto O’Rourke.
– I saw a video on TikTok he made and told my girlfriend we should go here, she says.
Abortion would not be prohibited, as Abbott did. And he wants better background checks for gun purchases, says Flores about why she wants O’Rourke’s appointment as the new governor of Texas.
The candidate for governor is nearing the end of his speech and excites his audience one last time.
– Are you ready to win? Asked.
Everyone is ready to win.
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