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Beto O Rourke considering run for governor of Texas
By Morgan Phillips
AUSTIN, Texas - Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, is considering throwing his hat in the ring for the 2022 Texas governor’s race. You know what, it s something I m going to think about, he told Texas radio station KLAQ this week.
O’Rourke, best known for his contentious loss to Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2018 Senate race and subsequent campaign for president, said that Texas had suffered perhaps more than any other during the coronavirus pandemic and accused Gov. Greg Abbott of complete indifference to assisting local leaders in trying to save lives.
Beto O Rourke Is Considering Running For Governor Of Texas In 2022
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Fox News, O Rourke told Texas radio station KLAQ that he is going to think about launching a gubernatorial campaign next year.
O Rourke accused the current Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, of being indifferent as Texas struggles to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. I want to make sure that we have someone in the highest office in our state to make sure that all of us are okay. Whether I m a candidate for governor or I support someone who s a candidate for governor, I want to make sure that we have excellence in leadership and that excellence goes to every single part of the state, including ours. O Rourke served Texas El Paso district in the House of Representatives for six years, from 2013 to 2019. He rose to national prominence in 2018, when he challenged Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. The Democrat raised $79 million in the race and outperformed all expectations, but Cruz ultimately won by 2.6 percen
Since President Donald Trump took office in 2017, his administration has tried to curb migration at the Southwest border with controversial policies like “zero tolerance” and the Migrant Protection Protocols, known as “remain in Mexico.” Initially, migrant apprehensions at the border dipped then began rising again, followed by a large spike in the first few months of 2019. A steep decline began in May 2019 as new policies took hold.
On March 21, 2020, in light of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Trump issued an executive order that immediately returns individuals apprehended or deemed inadmissible to the countries they arrived from. This order was reflected in April’s numbers, which showed a slowdown in people encountered at the border. But numbers released for May to October suggested that the order’s deterrent effects wore off in the border sectors located in Texas, apprehensions for the month of October were more than four times what they were in April.
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