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O’Rourke bets shooting will shake up Texas governor’s race

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Beto O'Rourke crashed the news conference of the man he wants to unseat, Republican Greg Abbott. The Democrat is betting that the tragedy can reset the governor's race in America's largest red state. A Democrat hasn't won Texas' governorship since 1990, and gun culture looms larger in Texas than perhaps anywhere else.

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O'Rourke bets shooting will shake up Texas governor's race

Democrat Beto O'Rourke briefly seized the presidential race spotlight in 2019 when he declared after a mass shooting his hometown of El Paso, Texas, that “Hell yes, we're gonna take your AR-15.”

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Associated Press News

O'Rourke bets shooting will shake up Texas governor's race

WASHINGTON (AP) — Still mourning a Texas mass shooting, Democrat Beto O'Rourke gave his long-shot campaign a jolt by imploring a national audience that it was finally time for real action to curb the proliferation of high-powered guns in his home state and across America.

2 years ago·United States

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KIFI

O'Rourke bets shooting will shake up Texas governor's race - Local News 8

By WILL WEISSERT Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Still mourning a Texas mass shooting, Democrat Beto O’Rourke gave his long-shot campaign a jolt by imploring a national audience that it was finally time for real action to curb the proliferation of high-powered guns in his home state and across America.That was 2019, and the former congressman was running for president when he declared during a debate, “Hell yes, we’re gonna take your AR-15,” w…

2 years ago·Idaho Falls, United States

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CBS News

Beto thinks shooting will shake up Texas governor's race

Beto O'Rourke again seized the national political spotlight -- crashing the news conference of the man he wants to unseat, Republican Greg Abbott.

2 years ago

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KVIA

O'Rourke bets shooting will shake up Texas governor's race

2 years ago·Panama City, United States

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NY Daily News

Beto O’Rourke bets Uvalde’s mass shooting will shake up Texas governor’s race

O’Rourke is betting that the tragedy can reset the governor’s race in America’s largest red state — despite Abbott twice previously winning the elections by a landslide and having begun the campaign with $55 million in the bank and despite gun culture looming larger in Texas than perhaps anywhere else.

2 years ago·New York, United States

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