TX-SEN: Beto O'Rourke says he'll run for Senate if Texans want him to

[RandySF]

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) said he would run for Senate again in Texas, this time for Republican Sen. John Cornyn’s seat, if Lone Star State voters wanted him to.

“If it comes to pass that this is what the people of Texas want, that it’s the highest and best use of what I can give to you, then yes I will,” O’Rourke said Saturday at a town hall in Denton, Texas.

O’Rourke ran for the Senate against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in 2018, eventually losing by less than 3 points in the historically red state. He also made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2020 election.

In the most recent U.S. Senate race in Texas, Cruz beat former Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas), this time by more than 8 points.





https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5271614-beto-o-rourke-texas-senate/

[hannah]

1. Please do

Nt

[tritsofme]

2. Surely Texas Democrats must have someone, anyone, better?

Even in the worst of years for Republicans, I am quite skeptical that he is capable of winning a statewide race.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. I would prefer Colin Allred

[RJ-MacReady]

4. No

No no! He caused a lot of damage to our party as it is.

[Danmel]

5. Please don't

You can't win. Give someone else the chance.

[Jirel]

6. We DON'T.

Beto needs to quit shooting for the moon, win a lower level race again, and govern well in that position, to restore his relevance.

A lot of us Texans are tired of seeing him run as a perennial LOSING candidate. This isn’t a speaking platform or a way to have a political year on people’s donations.

[madville]

8. Maybe you all could recruit Charlie Crist

Or Stacey Abrams, how many statewide races have those three lost combined you think?

[Comrade Citizen]

7. He could have had a long Congressional career.

He held frequent town halls when he was in Congress and was responsive to constituents.

His main negative locally was his ties to the "redevelopment" gentrification of El Segundo Barrio involving his father-in-law.
It's an old historic neighborhood made up of descendants of refugees from Porfirio Diaz during the Revolution.
Revolutionary leader Francisco Madero used to live in El Segundo Barrio.