I just don’t get turned on by being against. I really get excited to be for. That’s what moves me. It’s important to defeat Trump, but that’s not exciting to me. What’s exciting to me is for the United States to lead the world, in making sure that the generations that follow us can live here.
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Beto O'Rourke
Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke (; born September 26, 1972) is an American businessman and politician who represented Texas's 16th congressional district for three terms in the United States House of Representatives. A native of El Paso, Texas, O'Rourke served on the El Paso City Council from 2005 to 2011. O'Rourke was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012 after defeating incumbent Silvestre Reyes in a Democratic primary. O'Rourke declined to seek re-election to the House in 2018 and instead ran for U.S. Senate. As the 2018 Democratic U.S. Senate nominee, O'Rourke was narrowly defeated by Republican incumbent Senator Ted Cruz. On March 14, 2019, he announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020. 2Early life Robert Francis O'Rourke was born on September 26, 1972, at Hotel Dieu Hospital in El Paso, Texas, to Pat Francis O'Rourke and his second wife Melissa Martha O'Rourke (née Williams). He has Irish and Welsh ancestry. His family gave him the nickname in infancy "Beto", a common Spanish nickname for first names ending in "-berto", initially to distinguish him from his namesake grandfather.His mother owned a furniture store, and is the stepdaughter of Fred Korth, Secretary of the Navy under President John F. Kennedy. His father, Pat O'Rourke, served in El Paso as County Commissioner and County Judg
My sense is, following some success that I had in Congress, and working with Republicans to actually get things signed into law, including both President Obama and President Trump’s administrations, that I may have an ability to work with people who think differently than I do, come to a different…
This president, his open racism is also an invitation to violence.
If we don’t call this out, if we don’t do something, our silence becomes our complicity, not just in the hatred and the racism from the president, but in the violence that we saw here in El Paso just a couple of days ago.
He has described human beings from Mexico and Central America as an infestation at a rally in your home state of Florida. When he asks, 'How do we stop this,' and someone yells out, 'We shoot them,' he laughs along with the crowd, ginning them up to talk about sending her back, defending Nazis and…
This is a city that in an average year will lose 18 people over the course of the year. In one day, 20 people killed in a hateful, racist, murderous rage, in part, inspired by this president. So we’ve got to ask everyone in this country, I could care less about your party. You got to stand up and be…
What do you think? You know the shit he’s been saying. He’s been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. I don’t know … Members of the press, what the fuck? Hold on a second. It’s these questions that you know the answers to. I mean, connect the dots about what he’s been doing in this…