“He wouldn’t cast that same vote today with all that he knows and all that he has heard from people,” said a spokesman for the former Texas congressman.
2020 elections
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Wendy Davis not running for U.S. Senate, instead considering run for U.S. House
The former state senator and Democratic nominee for governor says she is “looking very seriously at Congressional District 21.”
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Texas Democrats plan multimillion-dollar effort to unseat Cornyn
The state party is launching an early, aggressive campaign to “define Cornyn before he defines himself.”
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Texas 2020 Elections
Charter schools are a complicated issue for Beto O’Rourke. His wife, Amy O’Rourke, founded one.
The presidential candidate is walking a fine line on a tricky political issue. His wife, Amy O’Rourke, once launched a charter school and continues to be an advocate for the controversial education model.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Beto O’Rourke says he raised $9.4 million in 18 days — more than $500,000 a day
O’Rourke, a former congressman from El Paso, was a presidential candidate for only the last 18 days of the first quarter.
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Immigration
Castro unveils immigration platform, laying an early marker in the 2020 presidential contest
The former U.S. housing secretary and San Antonio mayor laid out an immigration plan Tuesday that appears to be the most detailed yet in the Democratic presidential field.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Julián Castro, Beto O’Rourke say they’ll release their tax returns, but timing unclear
After President Trump bucked tradition and withheld his tax returns during his successful 2016 campaign, Democrats vying for their party’s 2020 nomination are vowing to make such information public.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Beto O’Rourke signed this pledge on oil money. Did he break it?
O’Rourke was criticized for signing the “No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge,” only to take big bucks from individuals who work in the industry. Now critics say he talks a good game on climate change but needs to put his money where his mouth is.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Beto O’Rourke kicks off presidential campaign in Texas
The former congressman and U.S. Senate nominee held the first of three Saturday launch rallies in his hometown of El Paso, and planned gatherings later in the day at Texas Southern University in Houston and at the Texas Capitol in Austin.
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Meet the small El Paso publishing house behind the book Beto O’Rourke co-wrote about legalizing pot
Cinco Puntos Press has been publishing books that invoke a “sensibility of border life” for decades, including the only book authored, in part, by O’Rourke.
