Nov. 29, 2022 Beto O’Rourke returned a $1 million donation from embattled cryptocurrency leader Sam Bankman-Fried four days before Election Day, his campaign told The Texas Tribune this week. Unlike other large donations, O’Rourke had not talked with Bankman-Fried prior to the donation, and the large sum took the campaign by surprise, Evans said. On Nov. 2, two days before …
UVALDE, Texas — Surrounded by fellow Republicans on a high school stage, Gov. Sen. Ted Cruz, standing behind Abbott, shook his head and said “sit down!” while one woman in the crowd chanted, “Let him speak.” Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin yelled that O’Rourke was a “sick son of a bitch.” Some people cried. “We need all Texans to in this …
Nobody expects Beto O’Rourke to win Comanche County in the Texas gubernatorial race — least of all, Beto O’Rourke. Being a Democrat in this area “means that you aren’t open with a lot of your friends,” Suzann Thompson, chair of the Comanche County Democrats, explained later that day. “It’s God and guns in this part of the world.” Leaving the …
AUSTIN, Texas — 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 else in decades. A challenge from O’Rourke, a media-savvy former congressman with a record of generating attention and cash, could tempt Democrats nationwide to pour millions …
